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The catalogue was written and the exhibition curated by Marvin Sackner. The viewing took place over a five day period at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for the XV Sao Paulo Bienal. The title was also termed 'Cratylus.' The cover design was taken from a painting by Tom Phillips. In this catalogue, Hiouedard made the following comments: Dom Sylvester Houedard was born on the island of Guernsey. He studied at Jesus College Oxford and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Abbey at Prinknash in Gloucestershire; he was ordained as priest in 1959. He was a pioneer of British concrete poetry and regularly contributed to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s until his death. He became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961, and founded the Gloucestershire Ode Construction Company in 1967. One copy is stored as a reference text, the other alphabetically on the shelf. "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, (and) offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic...

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GLOUP (GLOUcestershire grouP) signifies name given by Jonathan Williams to group of concrete poets living in the west of England, mainly in Gloustershire, including Dom Sylvester Houedard, John Furnival and Kenhelm Cox. WOUP (Westminster grOUP) is name given by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer to group of concrete poets living in London, mainly in the city of Westminster, including Cobbing, Mayer and Tom Edmonds. This anthology presents five works by each the poets. One copy has a yellow papercard cover, the other an orange one with a tear. Tom Edmonds who died at age 27 years was a member of the group; the Sackner Archive holds three of his typewriter drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue began with an historical introduction to text based works and included reproduced images of 20th century artists whose works are held by the Sackner Archive such as Apollinaire, Marinetti, Sabatier, Indiana, Kriwet, Augusto de Campos, Furnival, Finlay, Gomringer, Klaus-Peter Dienst, and Schuldt. The exhibition itself featured several artists whose works are held by the Sackner Archive, viz., Barton Lidice Benes, Howard Finster, Werner Hartmann, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Betty Tompkins, Regina Vater -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was a very large, diversified survey of contemporary concrete and visual poetry. The catalogue includes several critical essays written in Portuguese along with English translations. It features essays on the poetry scene in Latin America and other countries. The pamphlet is a program of events held in conjunction with the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.