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This book is a graphic melodrama of romance, crime, and passion. It addresses adolescent angst in all of its fashionably gory details. The snares and pitfalls of contemporary life, which all girls must struggle to survive, are here revealed through darkly comic and fiendishly noir prose, accompanied by lurid collages and unusual typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a collaboration of writing by Johanna Drucker, artwork by Susan Bee, designed by both artists and published by Steve Clay. The theme deals with young girls' fantasies in their relations with themselves and boys. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was edited by Rene Morales, curator at the PAMM museum, for the exhibition at the museum opening in the first week of December 2013. Johanna Drucker contributed in depth essay titled "Visual Poetics and the Technics of Conception." Rene Morales contributed "Imaged Words, Worded Images: A conversation with Ruth and Marvin Sackner." The contibutors cited consist of only those whose work is depicted in this catalogue. The image on the dust jacket was done by Jeremy Adler, the frontispiece by Tom Phillips and the end papers by Willem Boshoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was edited by Rene Morales, curator at the PAMM museum, for the exhibition at the museum opening in the first week of December 2013. Johanna Drucker contributed in depth essay titled "Visual Poetics and the Technics of Conception." Rene Morales contributed "Imaged Words, Worded Images: A conversation with Ruth and Marvin Sackner." The contibutors cited consist of only those whose work is depicted in this catalogue. The image on the dust jacket was done by Jeremy Adler, the frontispiece by Tom Phillips and the end papers by Willem Boshoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work prints a collage of different typographic fonts and sizes taken from printed material. Its design is concrete poetic in style but its content relates to language poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work prints a collage of different typographic fonts and sizes taken from printed material. Its design is concrete poetic in style but its content relates to language poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This documentation includes a letter of introduction by Johanna Drucker to the Dutch collector Meneer C.A. Groenendijk written on December 8, 1978, that requests an appointment to show him "from A to Z." Drucker has included a four page resume with the letter. A handwritten letter to the collector, dated January 17th, is included with ten typed pages of an explanation of "from A to Z." The detailed, personal, complex description illuminates the typographic masterpiece and writing of this poet/printer at the early stages of her career, and was considered lost until it was purchased by Marvin Sackner from a bookdealer in Holland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of five essays on artists books with extensive footnotes and a detailed bibiliography. Lucy Lippard is quoted on Artist Books as "not books about art, or on artists, but books as art. They can be all words, all images, or combinations thereof. At best they are a lively hybrid of exhibition, narrative, and object." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article about Ruth Laxson notes that she received the first prize for her new book "A Hundred Years of : LEX FLEX" from the Pyramid Atlantic Book Conference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript summarizes books and essays published by Kostelanetz over the years dealing with the subject of the title. He has dedicated the book to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes descriptions of each of the books in the 10th anniversary exhibition. It also lists suggested readings relevant to artists books. Includes a photograph of Pat Oleszko's Glove Story, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue is described on the back cover as follows: "Artists' books have emerged over the last twenty-five years as one of the most engaging contemporary art forms, addressing subjects from poetry to politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers have played a primary role in developing this new mode of artistic expression. The Book as Art presents more than one hundred of the finest artists' books culled from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. These exquisitely crafted objects are certain to provoke unexpected and surprising conclusions about what constitutes a book." In her essay, "The Brightest Heaven of Invention" curator Krystyna Wasserman writes, "Among private collections, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Achives of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida, has been a source of continual revelation and several...

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This exhibition presents works from the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection as well as books made by students, staff and faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The catalogue contains three essays on artists' books and the exhibition titled "Twenty-six (plus ten) Years Later: Nothing Left But Gas?" by AnneDorothee Boehme, "Artists' Books: Forever Young, Still Emerging and Not Yet Defined" by Christine E. Humpl, and "Value, the Book and the Artists' Book: A Re-evaluation of Cultural Meaning" by Melissa Azzi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drucker annotates each book she has created and printed under her early imprint Chased Press and the current Druckwerk. The loose sheet provides the current prices of her works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Comprises the text printed on vellum pages in the artist book of the same title which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover was designed by Joseph Simas and Johanna Drucker. This book is also designated Moving Letters Chapbook No.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.