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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 issue consist of reproductions of Padin's Textos and Signografias 1967-1970. The Sackner Archive holds all the Signografias reproduced in this issue and in addition No. 5, 6, 10, 11, and 12, The Sackner Archive is missing No. 6 and 12 of Textos reproduced in this issue but holds No. 6a, 13a, 15c, 17 b, 19a and 19b that are not reproduced. Stored in box of Clemente Padin material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The Sackners purchased this book from Eugen Gomringer who intended to publish it in German in his Konkrete Poesie series but it was never published because of lack of funds. Antonio Miranda internet: Psychoanalyst, poet, art critic and collector, Theon Spanudis was born in Izmir, Turkey, Asia Minor, May 30, 1915, the son of Greek parents. His father was George Spanoudis pediatrician and mother Clio Boulgaris Spanoudis, very cultured and lover of the arts. In 1922 a fire occurred at Smyrna where his parents lost everything they owned. Expelled by the Turks, were living in Athens. He grew up in Athens where he attended primary and secondary, already showing interest in literary activities. By imposing father left for Vienna in 1933 to study medicine, doctoral student in 1940. He specialized in psychoanalysis. He visited São Paulo in 1950 at the invitation of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society, where he taught until 1957. He attended workshops of painters, being the first in the...

Scope and Contents Also designated Colecao Espaco 3; the Sackner Archive also holds Colecao Espaco 4 by Carlos Fernando Fortes de Almeida. In the Jardim book, two to four nouns seemingly arranged randomly for the most part are printed on each page. Although its title is neo-concrete prose, it appears to be neo-concrete poetry. Only one other copy (unsigned) was found on the internet at the Getty Research Institute Research Library as part of the Jean Brown collection.Internet: Reynaldo Jardim was born in Sao Paulo on December 13, 1926 and died in Brasilia on February 1, 2011.Among other professional activities, participated in the 50's, the Journal of Reform in Brazil - where he created and edited the Sunday Supplement of the Official Brazil, Sunday Notebook and Notebook B. In the same group, directed the Radio Jornal do Brazil The Sunday Supplement of the Journal of Brazil, SDJB spent pages of cake recipes to the most important literary supplement of concrete poetry in Brazil, passed by critics and...

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This image was selected by Guillermo Deisler for his portfolio, "poesia visiva en el mundo" (1974). The whereabout of the original drawing is unknown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) and in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990) [labeled Text XV]. The drawing is printed upside down in Visual Poems 1967-1970 (1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) but not in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) and in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990) but is mislabeled in the latter as Texto XVI. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) and in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990) but is mislabeled in the latter as Texto XVII. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) but not in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Waldemar Cordeiro was the first poet/artist in Brazil to use computer art/text in his work. In bit international No.5/6 1969 (held by the Sackner Archive), it is mentioned that he was a participant in a program entitled, "computers and visual research" (1969). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.