Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Claudio Parmiggiani. Several books held by the Sackner Archive at one time or another were displayed in this exhibition. These included among others, Cendrars & Delaunay's Transsiberian Railway, Apollinaire's colored copy of the Survage-Lugat catalogue (5/10); Lissitzky & Mayakovsky's For the Voice, Marinetti's Tin Book, Soffici's Bif&+18 (deluxe edition), Lissitzky's Two Squares, Belloli's Solo nel Sole, Mesens & Magritte's Poemes 1923 - 1958, and Depero's Depero Futurista. A page from Flavio Vegezio's "De re Militari," 1523 is reproduced; the typographic layout of using letters for battlefield positions is similar to Eliano De Nomi's book, "Ordini Militari" that is held by the Sackner Archive. The Futurist periodical, Vela Latina, is described on page 303. The content dwells more upon ancient shaped poetry and hermetics than contemporary concrete poetry. The book reproduces several examples of Hebrew religious poems and Kaballah. --...

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This exhibition featured Russian Avant Garde books and illustrations and works from the earlier World of Art movement. In this book, the items in the exhibition are described in detail, one by one. Several examples are also held by the Sackner Archive. Photographs of the works in this exhibition are black and white or black and white with red highlights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Memoirs of Livshits, translated by Bowlt, describe and interprete "the literary and bohemia in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the provinces as well as their relationships with art circles in Western Europe just before the Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent "The Factory" by Liubov Popova and "Gorky-Lenin" a design for a book cover by Chashnik. Design of the announcement poster, invitation to the exhibition, and the front cover of this catalogue were adapted from the latter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was compiled for college course material and reference libraries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Revised and enlarged edition. Edited, translated and with an introduction by J. Bowlt. Originally published in 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is one of a series from "The Documents of 20th - Century Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book discusses artists, writers and esthetes "active and influencial during the late 1890 and 1900s, the time of Symbolism in Russia." Several chapters on "The World of Art" movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Proun 2 C(acquired in this exhibition), "Wendingen," "For the Voice," and "Of Two Squares" are among the works illustrated in the catalogue that were formally held by the Sackner Archive. This catalogue includes several critical essays by Lissitzky translated into English and German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.