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Exhibition was curated by Marie Irene Ribeiro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Julio Plaza, Gabriela Suzana Wilder, and Calcida Teixeira da Costa. Includes several essays on the topic in both Portuguese and English. This is a good compendium of contemporaneous, international mail art activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is a collection of Silves' publications. It comprises the following: 1) introductory card, 2) Mail- Art Copy-Book Two 1990, 3) Testos Visualis exhibition announcement pamphlet, 4) folded broadside not dated, 5) performance announcement card "A Violencia Nossa de Cada Dia" 1999, 6) 50 Anos - portfolio of photocopied prints 1993, 7) newspaper article on Silves (2003); 8) a newspaper supplement pamphlet about Silves (2000), 9) 16 photocopied prints not dated, 12) 3 page photocopied critical text on poema processo 1967 - 2002, and 13) photocopied page of exhibition review of Silves works dated 2002INternet: Falves Silva (1943-) is one of the artists featured in OEI #66 Process/poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Klaus Peter Dencker contributes an essay, From Concrete to Visual Poetry with a Glance into th Electronic Future: Since the 1960s I have established myself in the middle ground between literature, visual art, and film, practically and theoretically; what has been especially exciting has been investigating the origin and history of these border zones. Thus, beginning with the origins of writing, the picture alphabets, we have examples of the mixing of image &nd text from the Greek magical papyri to the early figure poems of the Greek bucolic poets, Porfiry's Latin gris poems, the variants of the successors to the Carolingean Renaissance, the Baroque text figures, the scrolls of the sixteenth century and their predecessors up to the free text-pictures of the turn of the century somewhat as in Mallarme and Apollinaire, which the experiments of the futurists and dadaists followed, continued, and expanded, to entirely unique forms brought through by the artists of concrete and...