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Article concerning the works of Albert DuPont is reprinted from the periodical "Berenice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This portrait of Stephan Mallarme is composed of abstract forms. The background contains the title in handwritten text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poems were composed by Isou, cover and aquatints were made by DuPont with the exception of one aquatint done by Tasiv. The first 10 copies of this book contain a duplicate set of prints on Japon paper. Two of the prints are portraits of DuPont's two daughters formed from dense accumulation of letters, numbers, and hieroglyphic elements. The sound poems were composed by Isou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme, "meca-esthetic" means the field of all the instruments of art in general and painting in particular such as canvas, brushes, tubes, etc. and for engraving the paper, the colors, etc. The bookbinding made by Dupont was made to illustrate this theme as well as the etchings in which the possibilities of "meca-esthetique" by way of manipulating, cutting, handcoloring, collaging, etc. the surface, the edge, or the depth of each etching. Arches paper was used for the prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This poem-object-book-work was created by Albert Dupont in tribute to the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Un Coup de Des" by Stephane Mallarme in 1897. A wooden box contains the book with five removable, acrylic cubes positioned on the spine. Each cube is incised and colored in ink on all surfaces with Lettrist symbols or texts. The book consists of a portfolio paper cover and a nine page essay. A second book consists of translucent acetate pages with handdrawn Lettrist symbols and words within a plastic slipcase. A third translucent acetate book is an actual reproduction of "Un Coup de Des." Because of the transparent quality of the pages, it is possible to view the literary text in a deeper, emerging three dimensional form.In homage to Mallarme, Dupont writes, "Since the famous poem 'Un Coup de des n'abolira le hasard', published at the end of the 19th Century, Stephane Mallarme has opened up the field of all the poetic researches of the 20th Century, specially by...

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The Sackner Archive holds several of Dupont's bookworks listed and depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing takes the form of a self-portrait of the artist using lettrist forms and marks -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.