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This book was first published in 40 copies in 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Lynn Zelevansky and was shown at the Los Angeles County Art Museum in which books were lent by the Getty. The same books were lent by the Sackner Archive to the MIami Art Museum when it traveled there. Peter Frank contributed as essay entitled, "geometric literature: From Concrete Poetry to Artists' Books." Amazon Review: In the decades following World War II artists in Europe, North America, and South America began experimenting with geometric forms. Rebelling equally against the mathematical purity of earlier geometric modernism and what many saw as the emotional excesses of abstract expressionism and Art Informel, these artists emphasized three-dimensionality, the repetition of modular elements, the conceptual underpinnings of art, and the performative to engage the viewer in the creative process and achieve broader intellectual, sensual, and emotive range in their work. Beyond Geometry, which accompanies an exhibition at the Los Angeles County...

Scope and Contents Internet: "The world-renowned Aldopho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, devoted to modern Latin American art of the 1950s and 1960s, represents forerunners of abstract art in Brazil as well as key works by avant-garde artists: the Grupo Ruptura of Sao Paulo (including Waldemar Cordeiro and Mauricio Nogueira Lima) and Rio de Janeiro's Grupo Frente (including Lygia Pape and the brothers Cesar and Helio Oiticica). The collection, now housed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, also contains important works from the Neo-Concrete movement with six major pieces by Lygia Clark and major works from artists who embraced Constructive tenets by working independently, including Sergio Camargo, Mira Schendel and Alfredo Volpi. This handsomely illustrated volume brings together thirteen essays on the Leirner Collection by preeminent international scholars and offers an important new framework for interpreting Brazilian Modernism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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This work is aka Black Box. The poem objects consist of perforated prints on cardboard that are meant to be constructed as cubes. Through the reprintings, this work serves as a retrospective of both poets' works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lynn Silverman, the exhibition assistant, writes, "Although Joe Tilson does not write poetry, the power of the word is evident in his art. His conversation is sprinkled with references to certain poets, especially Yeats and Pound. The ubiquitous relationship between words and images, and their role in structuring our experience of the world, is a thread that runs throughout Tilson's art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reproduces Gappmayr's (7 October 1925; Innsbruck -- 20 April 2010); Innsbruck) poems and reprints his theoretical texts that deal with definitions of traditional (conventional), concrete and visual poetry. Gappmayr uses the term "visual poetry" to also signify "concrete poetry" where only language without images is present. The book also includes photographs of installations of his work in public places. This copy of the book is the ordinary edition; in the numbered and signed editions, an etching is included with the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Articulations includes a section of handwritten maps that uses words to describe the locations as well as the history of stores and houses in Kostelanetz's neighborhood. The duplicate copy does not contain the letter that is an invoice for purchase of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book incorporate line drawings of cubic structures in varied perspectives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These unbound pages were used for the final printing of the book published by Writers Forum. On the verso of some pages, handwritten, ink and graphite documentation as to their prior publication is provided. The manuscript includes ink drawings of the poems, "These" and "The Evolution of English." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue reproduces seven of Kassak's "picture portraits" that have the appearance of concrete poems. The silkscreened pages depict reproductions of Kassak's constructivistic artworks, in color and black & white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Eter Panji runs the Visual World Poetry press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.