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This book is an in-depth, densely illustrated, presentation of international contemporary artists books with an emphasis on Brazilian artists. At the end of this book, the editor prints interviews of Lenir de Miranda, Neide Dias de Sa, Wlademir Dias Pino, Vera Chaves Barcellos, Iolanda Gollo Mazzotti, and Anna Moeglin-Delcroix regarding their views on artist books. Enzo Miglietta and Paulo Bruscky contribute essays on their philosophy and on book objects, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket: Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists' Postcards traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made creative and unusual artworks in postcard form. With 400 images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From surrealists to Fluxus and conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin...

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This book lists important Concept Art exhibitions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copiously illustrated catalogue of unique and editioned artist books and unique book objects made by an international group of artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Provides pictures and comments of selected artist magazines as complete runs. Those held in part or in total by the Sackner Archive include the following: 0 to 9, Art For UM, Artpolice, Control Magazine, Culture Hero, Decollage, Diagonal Cero, File, Vile, Gesammelte Werke, KWY, Mela, Revue Nul=0, Revue Integration, Spur. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The firsr section of this catalogue depicts artist books using photographs borrowed from various sources and the second section depicts artist books based upon photographs in Bibliotecas in Spoleto, Umbria, Modena, Catania and in Art Academies. The opposite dos a dos present book objects and works that resemble books, e.g. paintings, drawings, magazines, etc., followed by a section on visual poetry and small magazines dating from Futurism to the present. Several books and magazines depicted in this exhibition catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Live in Your Head re-examines the artistic legacy of the 1960s and 70s and attempts to clarify the points of origin of a formative generation in British art. It focuses on conceptual and experimental art in Britain. Each artist/poet is given a double-page spread, This catalogue also includes artists' statements and portraits, reproductions of numerous works, biographic and bibliographical information. In addition, Live in Your Head includes a lively and illustrated chronology of social and cultural events between 1965-1975, and essays by Michael Archer, Rosetta Brooks and co-curators, Andrea Tarsia and Clive Philpot. This catalogue has a yhellow cover whereas the other copy in the Sackner Archive has a blue cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Live in Your Head re-examines the artistic legacy of the 1960s and 70s and attempts to clarify the points of origin of a formative generation in British art. It focuses on conceptual and experimental art in Britain. Each artist/poet is given a double-page spread, This catalogue also includes artists' statements and portraits, reproductions of numerous works, biographic and bibliographical information. In addition, Live in Your Head includes a lively and illustrated chronology of social and cultural events between 1965-1975, and essays by Michael Archer, Rosetta Brooks and co-curators, Andrea Tarsia and Clive Philpot. This catalogue has a blue cover whereas the other copy in the Sackner Archive has a yellow cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dencker has compiled a tour de force of writings, references and examples of visible language from prehistory to the present. It is accompanied by extensive footnotes of documentation asnd references. Although the text is written in German, the images still guide the reader as to the cultural impact of his well-chosen examples. He has described the writings of the most important world-wide individuals in this field while featuring German speaking writers. Omissions of influential American poets/artists include d.a. levy, John Giorno, Barbara Kruger and Paul Laffoly. The index in this book lists the birth and death dates for several individuals. Several works held by the Sackner Archive are reproduced in the book. These include among others Charles Cameron's poem for rose-marie cahc (1965) depicted in Experiencias No.2 (1975); Eino Ruutsalo's story board for the film, "ABC," (1967) [different original story board for same film held by Sackner Archive]; Konrad Balder Schauffelin's...

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Starting from the work of pioneers of the historical avant-gardes, this volume reconstructs synthetically the vicissitudes of artists' postcards, ranging from the conceptual mailings of Fluxus to the multicoloured oddities of the planetary circuit of mail art, from unusual unique pieces" to the most stimulating alternative and New Pop editions, up to the phenomenon of promotional free-cards and to the virtual e-cards via Internet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips' The Birth of Art (1973), 10 etchings, is depicted on page 85; this work is not held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition dealt with mostly conceptual art and text. The introductory essay was written by the curator, Jessica Jacobs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.