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The paper in this book was presented at the first International Symposium on Letterism. Mentions that James Joyce was Isou's earliest inspiration. This book is stored in a Lemaitre box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript, published as a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive, was presented at the First International Symposium on Letterism. In the introduction, Failing focuses on Isou and mentions that James Joyce was his earliest inspiration. Takes up Lemaitre work when he is 24 years old and preparing his picture novel, Canailles. Note that even in his early works, Lemaitre's images can be distinguished from Isou in that they are more refined and contain a greater variety of shapes and lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Austin writes that "by turning their home into a museum, collectors Ruth and Marvin Sackner have made concrete and visual poetry more like household words." The article and interview concisely defines and describes the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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No.24 of series "Documents Lettristes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Charles Bernstein writes in the introductory essay that "Figuring the Word" is a wide-ranging collections of Drucker's essays in which she "presents herself as a visual artist, a literary writer, a scholar/historian, and an aesthetician. In all these areas, Drucker has made substantial contributions. But it is her synthesis of these fields that is her most extrardinary achievement." Chapters of collected essays in the book include Writing as Artifact, including a section on hypergraphy and Maurice Lemaitre; Visual Poetics; Artists' Books Past and Future; The Future of Writing; Personal Writing. In the section "The Interior Eye: Performing the Visual Text," Drucker traces visual poetry in the perfomance work of Massin & Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano," Tzara's "Boxe," Marinetti's "At Night," Iliazd "Lendentua as Beacon," and Gomringer's "Ping Pong" and other icons of visual poetry.In the section, "Iliazd and the Book as a Form of Art," Drucker discusses and/or illustrates the...

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In Lemaitre's essay, he mentions that that only 200 bound copies of Les Journaux Des Dieux were delivered for distribution because there were insufficent funds to pay him - "which of course makes the saved volumes extremely valuable." The books as well as prints and printed plates depicted in this exhibition consisted of 'Les Journal des Dieux' [The God's Diaries], 'Initiation a la haute volupte' [Initiation to High Voluptuousness], and 'Jonas.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Lemaitre sets the boundaries constituting the visual expressions of Lettrisme. The drawing is unique to each copy of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Lemaitre sets the boundaries constituting the visual expressions of Lettrisme. The drawing is unique to each copy of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pages are uncut. This copy includes one drawing by Lemaitre and two drawings by Altmann in the beginning of the book that were added to the pages after its publication. The edition of 10 copies of the special limited edition (not held by the Sackner Archive) included four watercolors by Altmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book first appeared as Lettrisme n.s. No.25-26, 1971 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. This book was also published in a deluxe edition of 30 copies, one of which is held by the Sackner Archive. There are several examples of Lemaitre's visual and poetic works as well as his followers reproduced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this document, Lemaitre expresses unhappiness with Chopin's chapter in the exhibition catalogue of University of Iowa's exhibition on Lettrism. This is stored with Curtay's materials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a letter to the editor of Afterimage as a rebuttal to an essay by David Trend on Lettrisme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete title of the text by Roland Sabatier is" Alphabets aphorismes (et reflets exterieurs) sur "clefs du mystere" et sur quelques autres hypergraphies de Maurice Lemaitre." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.