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The small drawings of airplanes with typed captions were done by Tissiman who signed the perforated page from which the drawings were cut. The drawings in turn were taped to each page in the booklet. The single page in Finlay's handwriting lists the text for the pages of the booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This a critical text dealing with issues after the exhibition, "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text taken from Jandl, Schwitters and De Vree is printed as captions to photographs of ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text taken from Jandl, De Vree and Schwitters is printed as captions to photographs of ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London. Lucie-Smith states "Concrete poetry is difficult to describe but easy to recognize." Stored with other material about this exhibition. Stored with material dealing with the Archive of "Between Poetry and Painting." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book explores the ways in which books represent art and literature, and how the marriage of word and image can create a work of art in its own right. Chapters include the following: Illumination, Bindings, Documentary Manuscripts, Children's Books, Comics, Poetry and Experimental Typography, Book Art and Contemporary Art and Publishing. It also includes a history of the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Several examples of the books depicted in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, several of the contemporary artist/poets works are represented in the Archive.Some definitions are of the book/poetry forms are not in the mainstream of classification. For example, Bob Cobbing's abstract sound poetry scores are classified as visual poetry in contrast to the more usual classification of visual poetry along the lines of poesia visiva.Under the citation of the John-Eric Broaddus book, Marvin Sackner's comments about his working methods are...

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Each page depicts a drawing of a model airplane along with a brief caption relating to a poet, artist or writer. The maquette for this work done in 1975 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.