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This book was edited by Aimee Selby. Two works of Tom Phillips held by the Sackner Archive are depicted in this book: the Painting 'Here We Exemplify' on page 18 and the print of the Humument Page 6 drawing on page . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copiously illustrated catalogue of unique and editioned artist books and unique book objects made by an international group of artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a scholarly work which analyzes the artist book in several contexts including the book as idea and form, early 20th century avant-garde books, the codex, the book as a visual form, books as verbal exploration, and the book as document. The Sackner Arcvhive is mentioned in a footnote and as a major source of Johanna Druckers collected works. Drucker provides classification of artist books through headings and examples throughout this book but omits listing them in a tabular form for easy access. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a personal history of international artists' magazines from 1968-1988. For the bibliographic section, there is an ikon for each of the following: multimedia publication, fluxus/concept/neodada, concrete & visual poetry/experimental literature, assembling, mail art/network publication, rubber stamp, xerography/copy & electrographic art, graphism/graphzine, radicalism/neoism, theory/review/history, and by/about computer. Toward the end of this boo,k Perneczky provides a complete listing of Commonpress issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is the first sustained consideration of the manifold infiltrations of the written word into the visual arts from the nineteenth century to the present day.Publisher: "From the cut-up Cubist collages of Picasso to the monumental filmic narratives of Fiona Banner, and from the schoolboy subversion of Magritte to the demotic scrawl of Cy Twombly, the use of words is one of the defining features of modern art. Indeed, with many contemporary works, only those without text are remarkable. Exploring the strange, unsettling, and often humorous results when words escape their traditional confines and inhabit artworks, this book is the first sustained consideration of the manifold infiltrations of the written word into the visual arts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Simon Morley traces the growing bond between word and image, explaining how artists have harnessed the resulting tension to form identities, challenge authority, and make sense of a world in constant...