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This collage has the shape of a leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This four colored print depicts a cow formed from repetitive written word 'cow.' The word 'hay' on the ground in front of the cow is repeated to form a stack of hay that is also being chewed by the cow. The cow is standing on a gray mound of words that spell 'snow.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collage consists of nine overlapping leaves in a horizontal row that have handwritten text collaged onto a white paper disc. The latter is collaged onto a green paper background. An additional leaf is collaged at the top center of ther disc. Caruso has written and cancelled a phrase beginning "come mani brinate..." in the lower half of the disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the same print in the Mercato del Sale Jan 1976 issue but collaged onto a blue mat with added green paint and glue at the top border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is a profile of the head onto which is collaged headlines from newspapers featuring political texts. The background surrounding the head is painted blue and bears inscriptions and an image (ship) related to oceans. The artist is also known as Nicola L. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The assemblage consists of the outlines of two hands with a printed (technique unknown), colored, experimental typographic rendition of a poem by Emily Dickinson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print consists of rubberstamped words of the title that depict a tree in cross-section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poster printed on heavy glossy stock depicts an abstracted shape of a nude feminine torso with its surface covered by a grid of randomly selected typewritten letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing is divided into a grid as a template for printing the pages of an artist book. The latter in an edition of 20 copies is also held by the Sackner Archive. The images consist of red and blue stick figures and mechanical gears, all constructed using a calligraphic, micrographic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a detail photograph of the Statue of Liberty that was composed with words on a 6 x 4 foot screen done with pen and ink on board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photograph of the center panel of one of Furnival's screens shows the Statue of Liberty which is totally composed of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The same print in this folder was also collaged onto a blue mat with added paint at its top border. It was signed in an edition of 50 copies; the latter is held by the Sackner Archive and catalogued under the artist's name. The top image of the print is a pair of eyeglasses filled in with written text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Kitasano was one of the most important Japanese Avant Garde poets of the 20th century. He was born in 1902 and died in 1978. It was right in the middle of the century that his creativity unfolded during the fifty years before and after WWII. His work entailed announcements of the production of his poems and photos, critical essays, the binding and editing of books and magazines. In 1966 Kitasono published the work Plastic Poem which was first published in English as A Note on Plastic Poetry in VOU (Revue de la Poesie Experimentale). This book shows many examples of his published plastic poems many of them published in the sixties and seventies in the magazine VOU. Contains many photographs in b/w and reproductions in color.The Sackner Archive holds the following issues of Vou depiicted as covers in this book: 85, 106, 108, 109, 112 and 114. The Sackner Archive holds the photograph depicted on page 113 of this book (it also appeared in Vou No.106), photograph on page 114...

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The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.