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Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Seven: Travelling / Gabberjabp / Hamady, Walter ; Schwitters K., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27563-28637

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Scope and Contents

This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts has different covers for each book in the run of 125 copies. Different old maps are collaged onto the covers and some books have a spine image printed on the book spine (not the Sackner copy). The media description of the pages is taken directly from Hamady's description that is printed on a leaflet of an accompanying advertisement for the book. The book includes a letter picture that incorporates varied ornaments and devices around the number '7' as well as several other pages depicting other typographic ornamaments and devices. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.Reprints dada-like modifications of notes on typography and bookmaking from other sources in a wide variety of typefaces and sizes. For example, one page reprints "Outline Of Divisions: 174, 'Front Matter'...1. Just about all books start out from an idea. 2. Everything in the world is waiting to become a book. 3. Before ideas can be read they need to become words. 4. Words come out of (all kinds of) alphabets. 5. Choices have to be made as per appropriate vs. available. 6. Many many actual letters are needed to be able to say anything. 7. Lettersfindthewordstheywanttobe. 8. And spaces help letters be words better. 9. More & other kinds of space even better yet, as we will see.Another essay in the book discusses footnotes and concludes: 1. Most things in life require footnotes. 2. Footnotes are always text, also. 3. All footnotes require their own footnotes, etc. 4. Thus, all footnotes run off the page and are never concluded. That is, all footnotes fail. 5. All footnotes change the text they are footnotes to. Thus, as per #3 and #4, no text is ever finished either. 6. Footnotes eventually swallow "text." That is, "text" is a delusion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + pages (printed, collaged, rubberstamped, drilled, notched, pigment patterned, punched ticket, handwriting, grommeted, ear tattooed, drawn, camouflaged, timeclocked) + leaflet (folded, printed) (154 pages)) ; 26.4 x 18.3 x 2.4 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Mount Horeb, Wisconsin : The Perishable Press Limited. Signed by: Anne Hamady (l.l.- page 6); [Walter] hamady 96 (l.r.- page 37). Nationality of creator: American. General: About 125 total copies. About 68 number copy. General: Added by: RED; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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