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Bentivoglio provided an introductory essay to this catalogue that featured solely women artists and poets. Amelia Etlinger contributed a typewriter poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of Irma Balnk at the Galleria Spaziotemperaneo di Milano in November 2002. In his essay Gillo Dorfles describes Irma Blank's techniques for the blue paintings. "Indeed the artist uses both hands to fill with signs the vast canvases and the series of polyester sheets, all realized with a wholly manual, or rather 'corporal' technique. In fact, holding a bunch of ball-point pens in each hand, and giving each of these a synchronous rotary movement from the edge towards the centre, in close correspondence with her respiration and heartbeats, she impresses on the surface of the canvas, of polyester sheet, skeins of bright, stratified colours that - as the writing proceeds - thicken until they cover the whole surface of the painting, while maintaining imperceptible openings between one line and another: this is, in a sense, the breathing (the einatmen, or inhalation, and ausatmen, or exhalation) of the colour." -- Source of...

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The text is "Everybody's Autobiography" by Gertrude Stein. Each facing page is replicated in cancelled, abstract calligraphic markings by Blank. An original cancelled drawing is included of page 153. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Article includes illustrations of F. Depero's "Volume Imbullonato," and E. Pouchard's "Legeres Paroles," which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copiously illustrated catalogue of unique and editioned artist books and unique book objects made by an international group of artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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All the pages are filled with small calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text consists of calligraphic markings formatted into paragraphs without any punctuation marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete text is composed to the letters c,d,h,j,l,t and r. The drawing in this limited edition is on the title page and consists of printed letters that read, HNJT IDJRJC LRID J JC HCJ.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a historic survey of women that have used language in art as well as women who are concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Chiara Diamantini. The first section, Fe/Mail Art, consists of works done solely by women artists. The second section, Dedicato Donna, consists of works made by both male and female artists whose images all contain women either in a realistic, abstract or concrete poetic mode. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition is a homage to the poet Giacomo Leopardi. The collage by Alessandro Benfenati depicts the profile of a young woman's head covered with calligraphic text of a poem by Leopardi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is stored in the Ugo Carrega box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.