The title "vile" is a double entendre, viz the object is a vial having sealed contents of an unnamed "vile" appearing fluid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is an anthology of the work of contemporary Catalan visual poets that depicts two works by the 32 contributors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is based upon "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry; Accame (1932-1999) was the first to translate Jarry's works into Italian. The Sackners first saw this work when they attended the exhibition "Jarry E La Patafisica" held in Milan in 1983. They purchased the work through Ugo Carrega during the exhibition. Accame was one of the co-curators of the Jarry exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Flyer for visual and sound poetry show. Held at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC) gallery

The titles of each book, each containing 32 prints with each print glued one to a page, are written on the covers by Cobbing. These books constitute a "scrapbook of Cobbing's published prints." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was printed on the occasion of the International Conference on Visual poetry, Eye Rhymes, held in June 1997 in Edmonton, Canada. Marvin Sackner met Sokola there and also presented a paper on the creation of the Archive database. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The sculptural image is a stylized chicken with mostly illegible, fragmented, writings and rubberstamped phrases with dada and fluxus content on its surface. The name of the bird/birdlike chararcter is Loplop who is featured in prints, collages and paintings by Max Ernst. Lopllop was an alter ego which Ernst developed and functioned as a familiar animal. Loplop first appeared in Ernst's collage novels La Femme 100 Tetes and in Une Semaine de Bonte in the role of a narrator and commentator. The cardboard box base has illegible handwriting on its lid, rubberstamped words DADA and stylized chicken heads on its sides, and rubberstamped, stylized heads of chickens within the inside bottom of the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This colllage is depicted on page 279 of Pignotti's book 'Figure Scritture.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although the artists were not part of the New Realism group, the iconography of the decollages is in the spirit of that movement. The edition size is 30 but the individual works themselves are unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme deals with Hitler's career as a failed artist. The portrait of Hitler carried throughout the book is an abstracted image of his two most prominent features, his hairline and moustache. Andryczuk contributes a critical essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.