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This sheet was placed on the wall with adhesive tape as the introduction to the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. Burkhardt's biography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each print has a large abstract shape onto which a Swedish text has been printed in a conventional layout. The colors of the predominant shape differ among the prints, viz., green, brown, orange and yellow. A 4 x 10 grid of the same word is repeated on each of the four prints, e.g., pluttsang, pluttsalong, pluttang, and pluttsarong. There are a few English phrases in the poem such as man in rain, grotto with pleasure, irridescent light, and Strategic Air Command. Each print depicts a coloured, imaginitive map, with text on each map. The first print also contains "Rules of the game". This is explained to be a project or an alternative for a "Game-painting": "Dr. Schweitzer s last mission". A kind of linguistic-political game for four players. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheet contains a text by Fahlstrom explaining this series of prints. The black and white prints, each numbered on the right side, are presented in a horizontal, scroll-like fashion. The dark, somber, abstract-expressionist thematic forms depicted in the prints are combined with letters & letter-like characters. Based on a prior work of 1952, Opera might have served as a scenic backdrop for the Wagnerian Ring operas. *WEB 1998: Sharon Avery-Fahlström. This silkscreen print is realized in ten panels with wallpaper-like margins which permit an overlapping installation. The concept was to install the work in a continuous line. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes Fahlstrom's manifesto for concrete poetry (1953). *WEB 1998: Sharon Avery-Fahlstrom Executrix, Estate of Oyvind Fahlstrom commented that the principal contributor to this catalogue was Oyvind Fahlstrom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is almost identical to the one published for the Modern Museet exhibition except that the text is written in French. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book Includes texts by Fahlstrom from Historical Painting and Notations (1974). Christine Kintisch contributes a biography of the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print depicts an incomplete grid filled with vividly colored discrete abstract images and the words "stripped & breath." It was part of nine other prints by Fahlstrom that were published by multipla editions. *WEB 1998: ]Sharon Avery-Fahlström: The title of this print is "Phase 3 of 'Sitting...Five Panels." Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was in the collection of Jan van der Marck, director of the MOCA and curator of the exhibition. He wrote in the introduction, "What characterizes the majority of works in this exhibition is their complex permutation of words and images. The resulting visual language tends towards poetic rather than communicative functions." Van der Marck also wrote the biographies of the artists. The Sackner Archive also holds the archive for the limited edition box with contributions from the artists that was assembled for this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This archive, from the collection of Jan van der Marck (1929-2010), who curated it, essentially duplicates the pamphlet that accompanied the limited edition box of the same title. It includes four announcement cards from Language I, II, III & IV exhibitions at the the Dwan Gallery 1967-1970 with artists that might have received his invitation to contribute to the "Pictures..." or "...Telephone exhibitions. The former is not included in the pamphlet catalogue nor is the invitation letter included in the Archive. Other missing elements from the Archive that are depicted in the pamphlet include correspondence from Al Howard & a found advertisement on bottle caps. Bauermeister writes a long rambling letter with her thoughts on her contribution according to van Marck's dictum, viz., an object with no intrinsic value that can be picked up in a dimestore, found on a beach or manufactured with little trouble - expressive of your likes & ideas, an element recurrent in your work...

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This duplicates the correspondence for the exhibition archive and includes letters and cards by Arakawa, George Brecht, Tenny Duchamp, Ovind Fahlstrom, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ron Kitaj, Gianni Simonetti, and Wolf Vostell. There are drawings by Baruchello, Mary Bauermeister, George Brecht, and James Nutt, and a collage by Granni Simonetti that deals with plans for assembling the found objects to be placed in a plexiglas box by museum personnel. The box is also accompanied by the catalogue of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. Two works in this auction by Tom Phillips, "The Calligrapher Replies" and "Conjectured Picture 11" were acquired by Sackner Archive. Correct titles of these paintings as listed in the Sackner Archive are "Letter Picture, Diamond" and "Mappin Art Gallery Conjectured Picture (ref, no.11)," respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print deals with abstract ideas about the Cold War using vividly colored surrealistic images and occasional handwritten captions. It was part of a series of nine other prints by Fahlstrom published by multipla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print deals with worldwide political concerns as well as artistic autobiographical issues through hand printed texts incorporated into discrete, vividly colored anthropomorphic shapes on an unprinted white background. "To me, it is important to demonstrate that heavy art (not cartoons, etc) and critical/concerned art can be one; as an artist, you are paid with surplus money (stolen from the workers)." This print was part of 9 others by Fahlstrom published by multipla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print depicts deeply colored black, green and blue abstract images. It was part of nine other prints by Fahlstrom that were published by multipla editions. The print is also depicted in an exhibition announcing Fahlstrom's The Complete Graphics held at the Arnold Herstand Gallery NYC in 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print deals with political and environmental issues in America using dense cartoon-like sketches in black & white, e.g., Attica, NY before police take prison, Colorado Plateau Colo.- Union Carbide extracts uranium, average 50 workers die of lung brain surgery on homosexuals and habitual criminals, etc. The background is a grid of squares labeled as states and on the left side instructions for playing a game. This print was part of nine other prints by Fahlstrom published by multipla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.