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The book is divided into three sections: The State of Things Now; Pages from the History of Intermedia; Three Considerations of Fluxus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book illustrates a collection of 255 music manuscripts whose selection by Cage was determined by circumstances. The text was the result of I-Ching chance operations which determined how many words were to be written by or about the 269 composers. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too - letter size, intensity and typeface - were all determined by chance operations. Alison Knowles served as co-editor and also designed the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book illustrates a collection of 255 music manuscripts whose selection by Cage was determined by circumstances. The text was the result of I-Ching chance operations which determined how many words were to be written by or about the 269 composers. Not only the number of words and the author, but the typography too - letter size, intensity and typeface - were all determined by chance operations. Alison Knowles served as co-editor and also designed the book. The book is missing the dust jacket. it is complementary to another book held by the Sackner Archive of experimental music scores, "Spartito Preso" (1980) that emphasizes Italian composers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Article is adapted from author's presentation at the Artists' Books Conference, Boston 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poetics Today is published by Duke University Press. In vol.10, no.2 Higgins discusses the roots of pattern poetry and its contemporary influence. The Sackner Archive catalogue is listed as a reference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript was in the archive of Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The profusely illustrated book consists of biographical essays and examples of work by the graphic designers selected by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Press release (loose sheet) mentions that Friedman's work is held by the Sackners. The drawings were made for Higgins' "The Epickall Quest of the Brothers Dichtung and other Outrages." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of lectures delivered at a Book Arts symposium held at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is the catalogue for the retrospective exhibition for Schippers in the Centraal Museum, Spring 1997. It includes documentary material of his Fluxus works, publications, radio shows and performances. Overlaping texts were printed in red (Flemish) and green (English) such that the opposite colored acetate sheet must be placed over the text in order for the selected language to be solely rendered visible. The envelope contains small paper reproductions of Schippers' works from the book. The presentation of text and images in this book that depend upon superimposition of colored acetate sheets is uncommon - this is the only book in the Archive so produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a collection of essays dealing with the book. Mike Gibbs translated Mallarme's essay, "The Book" and illustrated it with photographs. Karl Young contributed an essay on performance books in which the book functions as a dynamic object; he also describes and depicts Mayan glyphs. Allison Knowles describes her Book of Bean; she was interviewed by George Quasha. Jack Hirschman translated the interview from Liberation with Edmond Jabes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Stephen Balbach (Amazon webite): "Lanham has been a university professor for about 40-years, Yale-educated, English lit and rhetoric. He came of age pre-computer revolution, when writing meant manual type-writers and white-out and transcription. This series of connected essays are his ideas about what the digital revolution means for the future of books, universities and what he calls "the economics of attention" - how the world operates when information is plentiful and the scarce resource are "eyeballs" (attention). We are flooded with high-quality art, news, books, movies, data of every type - it is not an "information economy" because information is as plentiful as air - the scarce resource is peoples attention. In that environment, style (the wrapping paper, the ornamentation, packaging, literary style, etc..) becomes more important than substance - style is the substance (think for example all the crazy cultural things that come out of Japan - all style, no substance). He...

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Consists mainly of reviews of books by American poets. Includes review of Dick Higgins' Pattern Poetry -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.