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The newsletter for the Center for Book Arts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips reviews the exhibition and the catalogue "The Museum of the Mind" at the British Museum organized by John Mack. Phillips describes the artifacts ranging from prehistoric to 2001 as "reminders of the importance of the aesthetic; memory is most efficient assisted by artefacts in which coherence is synonymous with beauty...These leaps of time and space and subject sketch a network of associations that builds for the visitor a microcosmic map of the museum as neatly schematic and graphically witty as the plan of the London Underground." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes a lengthy interview with the Fluxus artist, Jeff Perkins. The latter collaborated with Guy de Cointet in performances in Los Angeles. Marvin Sackner is mentioned as giving a lecture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for the 10th anniversary of the master of fine arts in book arts and printmaking program. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue prints obituaries of Sandra Kirshenbaum, the editor/publisher of Fine Print who died at age 66 years and Elise Asher who was married to Stanley Kunitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes an obituary of Tony Zwicker by Judith Hoffberg and several tributes to Tony from her friends, including Ruth and Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Judith Hoffberg conducted an interview with Emmett Williams titled "Fluxus Artist Extraordinaire." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In the section of exhibition catalogs, "Networking Artists and Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth and Marvin Archive of concrete and Visual Poetry" is reviewed. The exhibition, curated by Craig Saper at the University of Pennsylvania Library, focused on post-war collections that circumvented the gallery system with direct mailings, collected in folios, bound volumes, and boxes of original artists' prints, poems, texts pages, books and textual objects and were called assemblings. The designer Greg Baer was praised for his sensitivity to the materials and to the energy of the collectors themselves. Saper's text becomes an explanation for the captioned illustrations and also a rhapsody on these materials. The catalog has a checklist of the 53 items in the exhibition, "just the top of the iceberg of the thousands of items in the Sackner collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.