ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

The 70 drawings contained in this publication designed and printed by the artist herself were selected from more than 600 drawings and notes. These drawings are preserved as a digitized collection on three CDs in important cultural archives... they are drawings notes for installations and sculptures, Some have been realized while others in an embryoinic state. They are notations that reflect the experimental and avant-garde character of the artist's work, as well as her choice of motifs and materials. They represent over three decades of the artist's thinking process related to space and volume. The works consist of drawings, projects, installations and sculptures from 1969 to 2004. Vater's work is listed as contained in "The Archives of Visual Poetry of Ruth and Marvin Sackner of Miami Beach, Florida - which is the biggest and most important collection of Visual Poetry in America." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Fernando Gonzalez reviews the multi media performance of De Campos, Poetry Is Risk, and the concrete poetry movement in Brazil in his first article; he describes the Sackner Archive in the second section. The Sackners are photographed in their gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.