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Cinicolo expresses disappointment with the V&A museum show of concrete poetry particularly with reference to the construction of the 3 dimensional pieces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This documentation includes a letter of introduction by Johanna Drucker to the Dutch collector Meneer C.A. Groenendijk written on December 8, 1978, that requests an appointment to show him "from A to Z." Drucker has included a four page resume with the letter. A handwritten letter to the collector, dated January 17th, is included with ten typed pages of an explanation of "from A to Z." The detailed, personal, complex description illuminates the typographic masterpiece and writing of this poet/printer at the early stages of her career, and was considered lost until it was purchased by Marvin Sackner from a bookdealer in Holland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds a painting by Suarez, "Brasil: Mentida la Verdad (Layed the Truth)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dan Jaffe was the editor and publisher of this book and wrote to the Sackners "It's with pleasure that I remember my visit to your home and your cordiality.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Number 28. This issue illustrates that "through the analysis of the recent, embarrassingly dubious American elections, we prove that the American people is just as much a victim of manipulation as the citizens living under dictatorship. Using a mathematical model, the authors show that through simple media techniques one can easily manipulate common consensus so that one [can] reach the most favorable decisions with regard to the current situation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated Number 15. Eduardo Kac contributes an in depth essay titled "Aspects of the Aesthetics of Telecommunications" printed in Hungarian and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is catalogue conceptualizing the marriage of Wallace Berman and Robert Watts, including a printed wedding invitation, illustrations from Semina by Berman, a reproduction on a typed letter from Berman to David Meltzer, correspondence art by Watts and a reproduction of a dollar bill by Watts. The book was designed by Jerry Lekky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a critical essay, Jean-Francois Lyotard writes of words as being "things," sentences are "events," and thought is "art." He states that "the space-time-matter of language is made perceptible, visible, by writing. Kosuth's work is a meditation on writing." Lyotard "compares Kosuth's visual works with the square letters of the Torah. These letters are also texts, but they are waiting for their accents, their vowels, their punctuation, their intonation, their putting into practice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a biography of Robert Rauschenberg based upon personal interviews by the biographer of almost every one important to the artist over his entire life span. It begins with a quotation from Rauschenberg, "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)"Mary Lynn Kotz provides a critical discussion of several artistic works reproduced in this book. One of them is "Opal Gospel, "a multiple artist book produced in 1971. The word 'opal' was suggested to Rauschenberg by the iridescent inks used in the work. It is an unbound book containing poems from the Nootka, Chippewa, Nanajo, Iglulik, Pawnee and Apache tribes, printed with Rauschenberg's illustrations from nature in iridescent ink on clear plexiglas. The panels or pages, are interchangeable in their stands. With this hauntingly iridescent work, Rauschenberg celebrated his own American Indian heritage. This biography is the only fully illustrated account of Rauschenberg's...

Scope and Contents The use of written language has been one of the most defining developments in visual art of the twentieth century. 'Art and Text' is a unique and timely survey of this most contemporary and relevant artistic tool, tracing the relationship between language and art, from early experiments with pictorial poetry, Futurist typography and Cubist collage, through Conceptual practices to the present day...'Art and Text' documents and contextualises the fascinating relationship between word and image, showcasing the many artists who continue to use text and expand its possibilities. The book contains an forward and three essays. In the first essay, The Schwitters Legacy: Language and Art in the Early Twentieth Century by Will Hill, the author uses the reproduction of the painting "Here We Exemplyfy" by Tom Phillips which is held by the Sackner Archive. Hill writes that Larry Rivers, Jim Dine and Jasper Johns use of stencilled letters "prefigured the finely articulated dialogue between word...

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Edward M. Gomez contributed an illustrated essay "Poetry and Pathos: The Story of Adolf Wolfli's Vision Fuels the Debate over Outsider Art and the Nature of Creativity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth and Marvin Sackner are listed among "America's Top 100 Collectors" as collectors of art with text and artists' books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Austin wrote an essay, "The Power of the Pen," in which he describes the Sackner Archive as the world's largest privately held collection of text art. The essay is illustrated with eight colored photographs by Chris Little. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.