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The exhibition catalogue of this exhibition is also held by the Sackner Archive. The verbal/visual annotation of the movements at the the lower left side of the poster forms the shape of a human face. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Announcement of a series concerned with collecting, discussing , illustrating and demonstrating the activities of world-wide avant-garde movements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One of the two copies of this book was previously held by the British poet, Andrew Crozier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Here's a little something for you & Ms. Ruth. So far it's an edition of 5. I wanted you to have one for your archive. The boxes are shaped like large books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card depicts the poster by Van Doesberg & Schwitters, "Kleine Dada Soiree," formerly in the Sackner Archive. The badge depicts a detail of the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of the following sections: Festival Dada (1918 - 1923). Transformation photographiques (1924 - 1959). Matiere-Collage (1940 - 1971). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprinting of a Dada poem first performed at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1917. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: The Gas Heart or The Gas-Operated Heart[1] (French: Le Cœur à gaz) is a French-language play by Romanian-born author Tristan Tzara. It was written as a series of non sequiturs and a parody of classical drama"”it has three acts despite being short enough to qualify as a one-act play. A part-musical performance that features ballet numbers, it is one of the most recognizable plays inspired by the anti-establishment trend known as Dadaism. The Gas Heart was first staged in Paris, as part of the 1921 "Dada Salon" at the Galerie Montaigne.In The Gas Heart, Tzara's appears to have aimed at overturning theatrical tradition, in particular the three-act play, which resulted in the suggestion that the text is "the greatest three-act hoax of the century". American literary historian David Graver, who compares The Gas Heart with Le Serin muet, a play by Tzara's friend Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, notes of the two texts that, together, they "pulverize the elements of conventional...

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The title of this piece is from Duchamps' version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa who has been adorned with a comical moustache and goatee thus deserving its alternate title Joconde aux Moustaches. The title is essentially a phonetic game. As Duchamp himself noted in a 1966 interview, "I really like this kind of game, even in any language, some astonishing things happen." When read quickly in French, the title L.H.O.O.Q. sounds like a sentence translating to "She has a hot ass." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue doocuments the first major retrospective of Hausmann's work for the exhibition that was shown in the three countries in which Hausmann lived, France, Germany and Spain (Ibiza). Several scholary essays are included in the catalogue tracing his early years as a Dadaist, collages and photomontages, the photographic works, sound poetry, abstract paintings and later Dada works. Chistopher Phillips essay, "In the Chaotic Cave of the Mouth," describes Hausmann's sound poems, which are considered "among the most difficult and perplexing" of this "recondite genre." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Professional papers of Stephen C. Foster, founder and director of Stephen Foster Fine Arts and professor of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. Materials in this collection include correspondence, exhibition materials, publications, teaching materials, ephemera, and audiovisual materials spanning the length of his career from 1972-2018.

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The compact disc includes Hausmann's readings of 1) RLQS, 2) Phonemes, 3) Interview avec les Lettristes, and 4) Sound-Reel. The original score of the latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored with the periodical "Stethoscope." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.