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This exhibition dealing with French Livre D'Artiste was curated by Antoine Coron who also wrote an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The subtitle of this book is "Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing." It is divided into four sections" Pre-faces; The Opening of the Field; The Book Is as Old as Fire & Water; and The Book to Come. Marjorie Perloff contributes an essay from "The Futurist Moment" in which she describes "La Prose du Transsiberien" by Cendrars and Delaunay. The book Includes two fold-out pages that reproduce this work as well as an English translation of the poem (the original of this book is held by the Sackner Archive).Gerald Janecek contributed an essay from "Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Books" describing Old Fashioned Love,' 'A Game in Hell and 'World Backwards.' Johanna Drucker wrote, "The Artist's Book as Idea and Form" in which she describes the artist's book as "the quintessential twentieth-century artform. Artists's books appear in every major movement in art and literature and have provided a unique means of realizing works within all of the many avant-garde,...

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The chapters consist of the following: 1). The post-cognitive era: looking for the sense in it all. 2). Five traditions of art history. 3). Intermedia. 4). Some poetry intermedia. 5). Games of art. 6). Exemplative works of art. 7). Intending. 8). Against movements. 9). Boredom and danger. 9). Structural researches. 10). Seen, heard and understood. 11). Towards an allusive referential. 12). Blank images. 13). Innovation. 14). Inventing our back pages. 15). Styles in cognitivism. 16). A something else manifesto. 17). On doing too much. 18). About Bern Porter and his 'I've left'. 19). Why Gertrude Stein. 20). Getting into Emmett William's poetry. 21). Conceptual forks. 22). A commentary by the poet on 'conceptual forks'. 23). An exemplativist manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Philip Meggs has written the most throughly illustrated, definitive history of graphic communications. In the epilogue, Meggs notes the following: "At the time of this writing human affairs are undergoing a new revolution comparable to the industrial revolution that launched the machine age. Electronic circuitry, microprocessors, and computer-generated imagery threaten to radically alter our culture's images, communications processes,and the very nature of the work itself. Graphic design, like many other sources of human activity, is undergoing profound changes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This second edition attempts to provide a conceptual and pictorial overview of significant graphic-design accomplishments. The book is organized into five general chronological sections: The Prologue to Graphic Design; A Graphic Renaissance; The Industrial Revolution; The Modernist Era; The Information Age. Each section is then divided thematically into chapters. This edition has expanded content, revised format and typography, timelines for each section and an expanded bibliography. In keeping with the Epilogue in the first edition, Meggs designed the dust jacket of this second edition using computer generated graphics. Although the number of pages in the second edition is slightly smaller than the first edition, this is because the font size is smaller; actually, the text has been expanded to cover recent contemporary trends in graphic design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This third edition provides hundreds of new full-color illustrations and new material in areas such as alphabets, Japanese and Dutch graphics, and the computer revolution. The book is organized into five sections: The Prologue to Graphic Design; A Graphic Renaissance; The Industrial Revolution; The Modernist Era; The Age of Information. Each section is then divided thematically into chapters. This edition has expanded content, revised format and typography, timelines for each section and an expanded bibliography. In keeping with the Epilogue in the first and second editions, Meggs designed the dust jacket of this second edition using computer generated graphics. The expansion in this revision relates mainly to th edigital revolution in typography and the new "dirty" typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an in-depth, densely illustrated, presentation of international contemporary artists books with an emphasis on Brazilian artists. At the end of this book, the editor prints interviews of Lenir de Miranda, Neide Dias de Sa, Wlademir Dias Pino, Vera Chaves Barcellos, Iolanda Gollo Mazzotti, and Anna Moeglin-Delcroix regarding their views on artist books. Enzo Miglietta and Paulo Bruscky contribute essays on their philosophy and on book objects, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a review of Avant Garde Brazilian poetry from the 20's to the 60's that does not include the Noigandres group. The concrete poems have their beginning around 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first portion of the text traces the historic roots of concrete and shaped poetry. The remainder deals with individual poets and includes their photographic portraits, biography, bibliograhy and reproductions of examples of their works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an outstanding, profusely illustrated, review of small press poetry mags and books published in the U.S. and other countries during 1960-1980. These works were mainly produced by the mimeograph process. A great number of them are held by the Sackner Archive. The fold-out page contains a "Chronological Timeline of the Literary Underground, 1950-1980." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Perhaps the best treatment accorded to the life and work of a concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents An appendix includes an English treanslation of 'Shikei Senkoku' (Death Sentence, 1925) done in conjunction with the MAVO group, Hagiwara Kyojiro's first collection of visual poems; a facsimile of this book (1972) is held by the Sackner Archive. Kerim Yasar, Princeton Univsersity reviewed this book (abridged by Sackner) on the Internet:William O. Gardner's Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s joins a growing body of English-language scholarship dealing with modernist and avant-garde writers and literary movements in interwar Japan. Gardner takes an explicitly historicist approach to his subject, writing that this work embraces the challenge "of probing the relationship between the modernist literatures that made a vivid appearance in the 1920s, and the rapidly transforming experience of urban life during the same period. In other words, it explores the relationship between Japanese modernism and Japanese modernity." This is an ambitious goal as...

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This catalogue depicts several printed examples pf Parole In Liberta dealing with aviation. A handwritten sound poem by Balla is reproduced not nearly as complex as the one held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Afrikan Alphabets will lead you to uncharted places in Afrikan cultures. This book is about the highly graphic pictographs, ideographs, and scripts devised and designed by Afrikans themselves. In Afrika, the harmony of art, nature and spirit is the rule, not the exception. In terms of the graphic arts, alphabets designed by Afrikans show that the spiritual line is free and unencumbered by the rule of the grid. Afrikan alphabets express ideas, systems of thought, cultural imperatives, aesthetic preferences, and spirit. They are one of the important keys to help unlock what has been kept hidden from so many for so long. These alphabets with their deeply meaningful graphic constructions show the intelligence and ingenuity of Afrikan peoples." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dworkin & Goldsmith provide a 54 page introduction in Roman numerals that is not included in the text count. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book provides examples of mathematical poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Claudio Parmiggiani. Several books held by the Sackner Archive at one time or another were displayed in this exhibition. These included among others, Cendrars & Delaunay's Transsiberian Railway, Apollinaire's colored copy of the Survage-Lugat catalogue (5/10); Lissitzky & Mayakovsky's For the Voice, Marinetti's Tin Book, Soffici's Bif&+18 (deluxe edition), Lissitzky's Two Squares, Belloli's Solo nel Sole, Mesens & Magritte's Poemes 1923 - 1958, and Depero's Depero Futurista. A page from Flavio Vegezio's "De re Militari," 1523 is reproduced; the typographic layout of using letters for battlefield positions is similar to Eliano De Nomi's book, "Ordini Militari" that is held by the Sackner Archive. The Futurist periodical, Vela Latina, is described on page 303. The content dwells more upon ancient shaped poetry and hermetics than contemporary concrete poetry. The book reproduces several examples of Hebrew religious poems and Kaballah. --...

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This printing of a Doctural thesis deals mainly with Swedish concrete poets, most notably Fahlstrom. Olsson visited the Sackner Archive in the early 2000s to scan material for this thesis. He is also one of the Co-Editors-In-Chief of Oei magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.