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Every Revolution Is a throw of the Dice by Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub describes the process of making "A Throw of the Dice..." by Mallarme into a film. Cha had a short life (1951-1982). She was murdered months after her marriage by a security guard in the Tuck Building NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Schwenger provides a critical analysis of the book, "Codex Seraphinianus" by Luigi Serafini (a work held by the Sackner Archive) . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There were 500 copies of this book in the hard cover and 800 copies in the soft cover edition. The exhibition was organized by the University of California at Berkeley Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Diacono provides a parody of Stephan Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des." Diacono introduces the poem that he designates "a metrica n'aboolira with cartoons. He then cancells the 1914 layout with blue and orange colored rectangles to bring out its constructivistic presentation. Diacono's book predates the more famous cancelled text treatment by Marcel Broodthaers, a work also held by the Sackner Archive, that was published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...