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Images of automotive vehicles form a single letter on each page which together spell "TRAFFICO." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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*WEB 1998: Marilyn Rosenberg: I think this piece was offset. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This poem was included in several Fluxus boxes. There is no reference to Emmett Williams as an author of the scroll. AbeBooks: Printed scroll of 3 conjoined sheets of buff-colored laid stock, rolled as issued. 2217 x 58 mm. (ca. 87 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches). A fine copy. "A Fluxus printing of "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,' also called "Alphabet Poem,' was usually included in "Fluxus 1" and "Fluxkit.' This work was first published by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich, Wuppertal, West Germany, ca. 1961. They also published "Kalender Rolle,' a survey of avant-garde art in 1961 and again in 1962. Printed on a long scroll, their form influenced several Fluxus publications, such as "Fluxus Preview Review'" (Jon Hendricks, in Fluxus Codex). Williams' "An Opera' was issued in the same format, and distributed in the same way. Only the alphabet poem itself appears on the scroll; there is no credit to Williams, nor any publication information. -- Source...

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Additive is defined as the addition of a single letter in an alphabetical sequence, a word to a page, to change the meaning of each of twenty five selected words. The page for the letter Q is blank except for the work miscue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is an unsigned version of this print with smaller borders listed as an issue of Mercado Del Sale, September 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These pages were reprinted from the original 1963 edition designed and typeset by Hansjorg Mayer.This is series IV, book 1 in seeing eye books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jorgr Orta did the silkscreen prints after the maquettes by Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letters formed for the experimental typographic alphabet prints were curved or cut from linoleum as well as drawn. The book reprints articles from Graphis, Typetalks, Print, etc. magazines 1963-1966 that depict the prints in this edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Produced by David UU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This concrete poem is laid out as an abstract design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a facsimile of the 1965 first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Is the original image for page 85 in Blei's "Paint Me a Picture Make Me a Poem," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the second edition published in June 1967 and does not appear to differ in content from the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the first edition published in February 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com description: How arbitrary are the marks, analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? This first book from Tauba Auerbach, Yes and Not Yes features over 20 new paintings and drawings that spring from those questions. They offer an excellent if roundabout answer: while letters are largely arbitrary, they are rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp execution--which reveals her training as a sign painter--Auerbach's works on panel and paper update the abstract conceptual tradition, while retaining its intellectual rigor. Uppercase Insides and Numeral Insides recall Russian Suprematism, and, upon further contemplation, turn out to be just what their titles call them. Works based on signal flags and the Ugaritic Alphabet--an extinct language from Syria, 1300 B.C.--confirm that puzzlement is part of the desired effect here. Where direct exchange between sign and meaning is impossible, the beauty of the symbol...

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This was also published in Chopin's book, "Le Derniere Roman du Monde" and reproduced with minor differenced in Williams' "Antholigy of Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.