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In addition to artist biographies, the catalogue lists book-related resources including collections, presses, catalogues, publications, organizations, bookstores, and supplies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is a section of this book that consists of visual and concrete poems that are reproduced as photocopied black and white images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is listed as resource of Artists' Books Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is listed as resource of Artists' Books Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains statement by the artists on the definition of an Artist Book. This catalogue provides documentation of the artist's activities often accompanied by photographic reproductions. The quirky binding of this book, which in itself might be classified as an artist's book, make access to the pages difficult and time-consuming and therefore not a easily readable reference text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes particularly good examples of typewritten concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue Includes concrete poetic broadsides by Ivy Sky Rutzky, "Blade Rein," and several by Haig & Regina Shekerjian that were acquired as seperate items by the Sackner Archive. Ann Noel [Williams] contributed a positive/negative reversal of the characteristics of letters poem, recto-verso, in a style after another example held by the Sackner Archive which begins, "After you have selected..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Covers by Cole. All contributors to this issue responded to the question "If you could apply for a grant of $500,000, what precisely would you propose to do?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dana Atchley's "Notebook 1," an Assembling, was published in March 1970 about the same time as Assembling No.1. Ed Ruscha contributed a piece entitled, "Chocolate" that consists of the word "Chocolate" printed on one page and a hand applied chocolate smear on the following sheet. This is the first periodical to utilize the term, "Assembling." Contemporary Assembling magazines arouse from the topology of correspondence art. As common reference points for its geographically dispersed participants, they functioned as alternative spaces for exhibiting work, places where invitations for projects could be broadcast and coupled with the growing practice of listing contributor's addresses, initiators of community building. Equally important, they provided correspondence art with an image of itself, a momentary snapshot that illuminated the scope and breadth of its activities. Self-published in small print runs, utilizing available print technologies, these periodicals were distributed...

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Compiled by Scott Helmes, Richard Kostelanetz and David Cole. A visual/verbal biography is provided by David Cole. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth and Marvin Sackner contributed an essay about Kostelanetz dealing with his first visit to their house in Miami Beach. This book was edited by Harry Polinhorn, Joshua Carr, and Douglas Puchowski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive has two signed copies of this book, one in a series of 25 as in this copy and the other out of series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript summarizes books and essays published by Kostelanetz over the years dealing with the subject of the title. He has dedicated the book to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition presents works from the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection as well as books made by students, staff and faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The catalogue contains three essays on artists' books and the exhibition titled "Twenty-six (plus ten) Years Later: Nothing Left But Gas?" by AnneDorothee Boehme, "Artists' Books: Forever Young, Still Emerging and Not Yet Defined" by Christine E. Humpl, and "Value, the Book and the Artists' Book: A Re-evaluation of Cultural Meaning" by Melissa Azzi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.