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The theme of this exhibition was inspired by the 100th anniversary of Mallarme's Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard. Combining music and poetry and preceding the Dadists and Futurists, Mallarme constituted a line that passed to Apollinaire, Michaux, Klee, Max Ernst and Fluxus. This catalogue demonstrates the writing and artistic expression emerging in the century after Mallarme's birth. The works in this catalogue are mainly oriented to calligraphic expressions. The book has extensive illustrations of the latter that are printed in color. The Sackner Archive holds artist books similar in imagery to pages of Hubaut's book reproduced in color in this catalogue. Nanni Balestrini contributed 13 panels of an alphabetical visual poetry piece that are reproduced in color in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this exhibition was inspired by the 100th anniversary of Mallarme's Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalog is illustrated with reproductions of Pey's poem object sticks, with handwritten texts, similar to the work held by the Sackner Archive. An English translation of the poem near the title page by Pey is provided: "To Ruth and Marvin Sackne These sticks of word on the side of the silence, which, writes to us as a voice, to both of you as a poem, in the museum of your hands, friendly, Serge Pey." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pey has inscribed his book with a personal poem to the Sackners. The Archive holds a poetry stick of the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Francois Woimant who contributed an essay writes, "...The French National Library's Cabinet des Estampes contains one of the largest public collections of artists' books in the world, second only in size to that held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ... today totals approximately 4000 works." Woimant's estimate of the collection size is based upon mass distributed artist books, not the one of a kind book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem object consist of two silkscreened prints depicting experimental music scores wrapped several times around a stiff printed card. The folders insert within a bent open plexiglas frame; the abstract plaster sculpture is sited on the forward bend of the plexiglas frame. The plastic circular poem object with white painted handwriting is mounted on an opened folder on the back of the book object. The sound poem was recorded on the tape casette by Serge Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book was written by Patrick Tacusell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This poem was performed in 1987 in a Festival in Opposition to the Inquistion.Serge Pey (1950, Toulouse, France) "“ poet, performer, essay writer, organizer. Author of fifteen poetry books, including the following ones: De la ville et du fleuve (Tribu Ed., 1981), Prophéties (Tribu Ed., 1984), La définition de l'aigle (J. Bremond Ed., 1987), Notre Dame La Noire (Tribu Ed., 1988), La Mère du Cercle (Travers Ed., 1994) and many others. He is the founder and editor of the magazines "Emeute" (since 1975) and "Tribu" (since 1981), dedicated to the theory and practice of the contemporary literature. Being the organiser of the group of action flamenco-poetry "Los Afiladores" and one of the participants of the international trend of direct poetry, Pey repeatedly performed in New York, Madrid, Quebec, Mexico-City, Paris, Barcelona, Florence, Tokyo, etc., as well as in the frameworks of the documenta 10 (Kassel, 1997). He is the author of a number of critical and theoretical articles...

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The soft cover books are titled "Escrits" and "Dades." The cards are photographic reproductions of visual poems by Ferrando. The plastic box is an appropriated videotape box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Photograph on cover of envelope was taken by G. Ayme. The booklets contain photographs of the works and installations for sale or rent. The two catalogues with the same title differ in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Describes performances and exhibitions that are available for rent along with the prices. The presentation is done in a very artistic manner. The two catalogues with the same title differ in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The silkscreen drawings were done by Castera based upon the ideas of Astrid Strid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustrations are of the works of Strid and Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.