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Found in 275 Collections and/or Records:

Sweet Dreams; contemporary art and complicity, 2005

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Identifier: CC-48338-69363
Scope and Contents From the inside flap of the book: Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Drucker argues that contemporary art is fully engaged with material culture"”yet still struggling to escape the oppositional legacy of the early-twentieth-century avant-garde. She calls for a revamping of the critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices.Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde resistance with acknowledged complicity. Finding their materials at malls and superstores or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly playful attitude towards mass culture"”all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avant-garde. At the cutting edge of new media research, Drucker surveys a wide range of exciting contemporary...
Dates: 2005

Tarocco Meccanico, 1990

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Identifier: CC-38492-40400
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This book is also designated Supplement No.1 of the 4th series of Altri Termini. It is a score for a "sound novel" (rather than a sound poem) first performed in 1972. The drawing adjacent to Fontana's signature is an abstract depiction of musical notation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Arts of Alasdair Gray, 1991

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Identifier: CC-33910-35582
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This book consists of 12 critical texts about the life, art, and literary works by Gray as compiled and edited by Robert Crawford and Thom Nairn. The facing page of the title page depicts a self portrait drawing by Gray rendered in visual poet terms. Four paintings are also reproduced as plates in addition to small drawings scattered throughout the book. There is marginalia from the previous owner -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle: The Art and Poetry of d.a. levy, 1999

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Identifier: CC-32703-34290
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In the introduction, Golden writes about levy's "The North American Book of the Dead." He states that "this is not only a major epic spiritual hymn, it is one of, if not the major post-modern shamanistic-poetic vision of America written this century. Read it straight through and levy will take you on a trip through not just the times he lived in, but through all time. He was, first and foremost, a writer of space, yet as visionary as his voice was, to this point he has been recognized primarily as a writer of place.' And that place was Cleveland. Golden also contributed an essay, "Portrait of a Young Man Trying to Eat the Sun." There are eight colored photographic reproductions of levy's collages in this book. The collage reproduced on page 99 is held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, several works from the Sackner Archive are reproduced in this book. This book is stored near the d.a. levy material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Chronicles of Akhira, 1986

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Identifier: CC-58746-10001982
Scope and Contents Karl Kempton dedicated his 12 typoglifs in this volume to the poet-author Abd al-Hayy Moore, "bringing together sacred visual expression from around the world and wedding it to like-minded expression of the Native American Peoples, primarily of the Southwest and Central Coast of California." This book is stored in Lempton's box.Internet: Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and...
Dates: 1986

The Cow Jumped over the Moon: The Writing and Reading of Poetry, 1972

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Identifier: CC-21115-21524
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Most of this book is presented as an interview of Birney. The is one concrete poem example in this book dealing with autobiography and critical analysis of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition, 1996

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Identifier: CC-30128-31526
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This book consists of a reprinting of ten essays written for specific occasions that were published between 1981 and 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Electric Alphabet First Edition, 1986

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-24353-24805
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A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The End of Words, Selected Works, 1990

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Identifier: CC-07817-7970
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The bookbinding was done by Jane Rollo. Each copy is virtually unique since collages were made adhering a limited number of the defective printed pages onto the pagea of the printed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Future Dictionary of America, 2004

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Identifier: CC-60584-10003480
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An unprecedented book - CD package to benefit progressive causes featuring over 200 of America's best writers, artists & musicians. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts, 1994

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Identifier: CC-27909-29050
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Unica Zurn's writings are largely auto-biographical and reflect her long journey into mental illness. She was the long-time companion of Hans Bellmer. She produced poetry, novels, anagrams and automatic drawings and travelled in the artistic circles of the Surrealists. "The years from 1957 to 1967 are documented in the main text of the Man of Jasmine...The cycle of her crises, the contrasts between the miracles, her feelings of megalomania and the crushing banality and tedium of life in mental hospitals, is captured vividly...Zurn's acumen and artistry, her virtuosity as a writer were able to withstand her mental crises and depressions and allowed her to add a further masterpiece to a small precious row of unclassifiable works." Zurn committed suicide in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Poetic In(ter)vention , 1987

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-24498-24951
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This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Poetics of Indeterminacy, 1981

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Identifier: CC-30101-31499
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In this book, Perloff traces the history of modern poetry mainly through such poets as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sanuel Beckett, John Ashbery, David Antin and John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press - an Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979, 1993

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-01526-1559
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Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in the United States of the output of this indispensable press, covering the enormously wide range of the work of publishers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Polish avant-garde artists who in their long tenure in England brought the likes of Jarry, Apollinaire, Queneau, Schwitters, and so many others to a wider English-speaking audience.. Includes a description and the covers of the 82 books published by Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993