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The poem object by Ennio Pouchard entitled, "Leggere Parole" that is photographically reproduced in this catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. Mirella Bentivoglio conducted an interview of the four participating artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stein's text was originally published in 1935. Goldsmith used the 1985 Beacon Press text to contribute two pages of punctuation marks alone from the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This paper was presented an the SHARP 2001 Conference. The Sackner Archive is mentioned as providing crucial support to many authors working in the field of book arts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner's lent their Welty collage piece to the exhibition that will travel to the Zimmerli Art Mueum at Rutgers University. The work is titled "Soundtrack to My Life: Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads (Grocery Store)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Betty Bright. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue consists of commentaries and reproductions of paintings and books done by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue is devoted to conservation and preservation of books and works on paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains article on photographing books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An essay on art and book conservation is featured. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is also an exhibition catalog of artists' books from the membership held at the Civic Center Public Library, Sanf Francisco 1992. Of the 79 entrants to the show, 58 were women. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sheila Murphy provided critical remarks at the end of this book. The layout of all the poems in this book is the same. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover is a reproduction of one of Tom Phillips' "Conjectured Pictures from the Mappin Art Gallery." An article entitled "Tom Phillips: Or, Empiricism through an English Painter's Eyes" by R.C.Kenedy reviews his works including "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition of artists' bookplates commemorates the 25th anniversay of Printworks. Susan Barron contributed a bookplate for the Biblical Moses and Claire Van Vliet one for Rachel Carson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition explores how the accordion fold has been used in the West within a variety of different printed matter contexts with a special emphasis on publications produced by artists from the 1960s onwards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue contians essays by collectors and dealers who describe how they started their collections. It also lists galleries participating in the Artist Book Fair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Marvin Sackner reviewed the book and wrote a blurb for the dust jacket. Betty Bright is a co-founder and curator of the Minneapolis Center for Book Arts who was responsible for over 50 exhibitions in a nine year-period. She has written a book on artist books that removes the chaos from the many flavors of this genre. Her analysis is confined almost exclusively to British and American writers and artists. She discusses artist books chronologically based upon the classification of the fine press book, deluxe book, bookwork, sculptural books and hybrids She begins the journey with the books by William Morris of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth century. She mentions that Morris was preoccupied with the design of the book because he believed that such books should not only tell a story but cause the reader to enter into a new world, a remark that seems apropos to the artist book today. Along the way, she cites exhibitions and catalogues, some well known and...

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Stored in Nannucci box. "This voume, subtitled "Nonprofit Collective Organizations in the 1960's and 1970's," gathers one of the first extensive research on artist-run spaces. Developed in collaboration with the initiators and founders of Art Metropole (Vancouver), Artpool (Budapest), Ecart (Geneva), Farnklin Furnace (New York) La Mamelle (San Francisco), Printed Matter (New York), and Zona (Florence), the activities of these interconnected points of an alternative network are thus introduced by figures such as AA Bronson, Lucy Lippard, Tom Marioni, and Maurizio Nannucci. They develop on the implications of new art practices, self-organizaion strategies, and politics of exchange." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue defines, describes and illustrates, in an experiment graphic designed layout, mass produced editions of artists' books from the 1970's to the 1990's. This book is complementary to Johanna Drucker's book, "The Century of Artists' Books that dealt with unique and small editioned books. In an in-depth essay, Clive Phillpot analyzes the entire spectrum, including magazines, assemblings, manifestos, visual poetry, scores, documentation, sketchbooks, albums, graphic works, comic books, illustrated books, page art, mail art and bookworks. Martha Wilson is interviewed by Thomas Padon about the Franklin Furnace Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.