Scope and Contents Underground In contemporary society this is a wider concept applied to social stratification. It usually refers to groups less educated and less classified than the civil majority and their mainstream establishments, which function 'beneath' or independently of the latter. Related words include 'parallel or alternative societies/layers', 'second publicity', 'resistance', 'opposition', 'subculture', etc. Henceforth I shall mostly refer to the artistic underground, which I understand, on the one hand, as artistic community which is excluded from art organizations and the art business and hence is often relegated to social insecurity, and, on the other, as the artistically interested layers of intellectuals, students or sympathizers In special cases (such as in an era of political repression) professional artists may also belong to the artistic underground. Another frequent occurrence has been that representatives of the art establishment freely choose to move towards the underground,...

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This book is a collection of reprints of several situationist and related periodicals and books including Reflex, Cobra, Ion, Ur, Internaationale Lettriste, Potlach and Eristica. -- 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.

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This is a survey of medieval, Latin shaped poetry with critical text. Several pages by Rabano Mauro (Hrabamus Maurus) are reproduced from a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The marginata was inserted by Dick Higgins, the previous owner of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent the majority of the typewriter and plastic poems for this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First printing. Bory's introduction traces the history of the concrete poetry movement and its aesthetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Although his inscription alludes to a second edition, this was not meant to be. In this first edition, first printing, Higgins tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting more than 2000 works. He divides the book by chapters such as Language and Literature, e.g., Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch and Flemish, British, Hispanic, Polish, and Slavic. He also has a chapter on Languages outside European such as Far East, Citrakavyas and other Indian languages, Islamic, and Languages in which no pattern poetry has been reported. In another chapter, he descibes Acrostics, Telestics, Mesostics, Lapidary Inscriptions, Leonine Verse, Magical Inscriptions and Formulae, Mathematical Arrays and Poems, Musical Analogues of Pattern Poetry, Proteus Poems, Rebuses, Shaped Prose, and Sound Poetry. De. Herbert Francke contributes a chapter on Chinese Pattern Texts and Dr. Kalanath Jha on Sandscrit Citrakavyas. Higgins' glossary of terms follows...

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[see pdf for full text] Kenneth Goldsmith contributes a highly perceptive essay on the visuality of concrete poetry as compared to the visual arts. … -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides an anthology of Italian contemporary visual poetry along with statements by the contributing poets. Stored in Carrega box and reference shelf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was based upon the "Metamorphoses des Kunstlerbuches" that was presented as part of Documenta VI in 1977 in Kassel, West Germany. The text was written in German by Rolf Dittmar and translated to English and Farsi for this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.