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Bag is addressed to Luc Fiierens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition was curated by Guy Bleus. This catalogue includes an introductory essay by Guy Bleus with definitions of the artist book. It also includes brief statements by several artists on the artist book, viz., Fernando Agiuar, Albrecht d., Carl Andre, Mirella Bentivoglio, Piermario Ciani, Robin Crozier, Guillermo Deisler, Goivanni Fontana, H.R. Fricker, John Held, Jr., Judith Hoffberg, Joel Hubaut, Ray Johnson, Ruggero Maggi, Robert C. Morgan, Geza Perneczky, Gunther Ruch, Serge Segay, Chuclk Welch, and Rea Nikonova. Several works depicted in the catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by Piermario Ciani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition was curated by Ruggero Maggi. The essays and art works in this book all relate to the chaos and fractal theory in mathematics, art and poetry. As Angelo Bertani writes in his essay, On Apparent Order and Chaos, "What seems to be extremely significant is the artist's need (now extremely widespread) to go out from protected, appointed places and instead, contend directly with existence, with the richess of material, with the spaces of life: in this sense, the creeping crisis of painting, the growing prevalence of installations and video-works are a sign, beyond the current fashion of the will to contend with change, accident and the relative: the other names for chaos. Moreover, in a world where technology prevails, perhaps only the ways of art can inser ta fragment of liberty into the oppressive mechanism of necessity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition was curated by Al Ackerman, James Rosenquist and Paul Rutkovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was cuurated by Giovanni Fontana. It also included sound poetry recordings curated by John Giorno, Paul Vangelista, Charles Amirkhanian, and J.Wellman. The front cover was done by Karl Kempton and the back cover by Richard Kostelanetz. Although the title of this exhibition indicates the work of 55 American poets, several are of different nationalities, e.g., Canadian, French, British and German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by Giovanni Fontana. It also included sound poetry recordings curated by John Giorno, Paul Vangelista, Charles Amirkhanian, and J.Wellman. The front cover was done by Karl Kempton. Although the title of this exhibition indicates that it featured the work of 55 American poets, several are of different nationalities, e.g., Canadian, French, British and German. The catalogue is identical to the catalogue for the Frosinone exhibition with the same title except for a 14 page insert printed on Kraft paper. The latter consists of brief essays by Minarelli, Giorno, Higgins, Wendt, Kostelanetz as well as statements by Helmes, Kempton, Essary, Kucharz, and Prost. The topics included text sound pieces by Americans, the Dial-A-Poem poets, intermedia, computer manipulations, holography, and personal statements about the artist's own work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Buzz Spector contributes essay on Mail Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive is cited as a reference on Dana Atchley (pp 19 & 22), John Bennett (p 39 & 40), Charles Bernstein (p 43), Richard Kostelanetz (pp 94 & 95), and Ken Saville (p 108). The issue is dedicated to Ray Johnson who died in 1994. The design of this catalogue is based upon the design of the Ray Johnson exhibition catalog published by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition included original rubberstampings collected on correspondence, documents and in publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.