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The following works held by the Sackner Archive are depicted in the catalogue: Accame's "Visioni del Partcolare [15 drawings]," Barsky's "Botschraft einer Toilettenpapierrolle," Mau's "Ein Stern erzahlt ge-Schichten," Partem's "alphabetique phonetique," and Schmidt's "gemau in anbetracht einer verschiebung." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A major part of this book deals with the craft of calligraphy. Another section is concerned with the origins of calligraphy beginning with Egyptian hieroglyphics and commencing through various alphabets such as Cretian, Phoenician, Etruscan, Greek, and Latin to the Roman. Another section deals with cursive scripts. The book deals with individual European calligraphers from the Renaissance onward with a few Americans such as William Dwiggens mentioned. The final section of the book is devoted to the relationship of some forms of contemporary calligraphy and abstract expressionistic painting.The author, Claude Mediavilla, is a painter/calligrapher who is a Professor at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an anthology of visual and picture poems made by students from kindergarten to the 12th grade living in Seattle, Washington. The poems and teaching methods are analyzed by the author who was a poet-in-residence in the school system in Seattle. In the final chapter, he presents and comments on poems by established adult poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.