The artist book "Libro di Stoffa, 1986 which is held by the Sackner Archive is depicted in this catalogue as entry No.177. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Luciano Caruso contributed an introductory essay on Artist Books in Italy. The exhibition was divided into editioned books, book-objects, handwritten unique books, books with declarations, books incorporating unusual materials, and books using signs. 176 Italian book artists were represented in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mirella Bentivoglio comments that the works of Di Sarro (1941-1979), who was a doctor, should be considered as precursors to art as writing, a tendency which developed in Rome in the sixties in the work of Emilio Villa, Marco Balzarro, and Luciano Cattania. She adds that this was followed by the well known Roman tendency of sign-abstraction, "impersonated" by Capagrossi, Novelli, and Twombly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A photographic reproduction of a page from this book listed as No.177 in catalogue entitled "Alfa-Omega," 1989 is listed by Elisa Debenedetti in her catalog on Cattania works from 1952-1987. Cattania's calligraphy, achieved through a personal stylistic flame incising of the cloth pages, appears as grids and in diagonal overwritings of linear text. Images include a surrealistic eye, a menorah and a meditating yogi figure among others. One page has a grid composed of repeated number "3's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The background depicts Cattania's drawing, Yantra. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive is mentioned in a listing of archives of visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.