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The text taken from Jandl, Schwitters and De Vree is printed as captions to photographs of ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text taken from Jandl, De Vree and Schwitters is printed as captions to photographs of ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Pie o provides a wonderful biography of Jas Duke and selects additional poems to those reprinted from Duke's "poems of life and death." The accompanying compact disc is Jas Duke reading poems from the latter. thalia (internet); Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia in 1939. Son of two schoolteachers, Irish-Scottish ancestors. His family moved to Melbourne in the 1950s. He worked as a draftsman/ a laboratory assistant/ a technical writer and dreamed of becoming a chess champion (didnt quite make it). As a substitute he read every book that he could find. In the 60's he became an Anarchist. Wrote short stories, and was desperately looking for a way to break-out! Went to England via the U S of A, where he circulated in the politico-psychedelic underground. In England he sought the commraderie of Freedom Press; met Ted Kavanagh, Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono, and Raoul Hausmann. Jas became a political activist, and an actor who appeared in many underground movies by filmmaker Jeff Keen....

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This is the major anthology of Duke's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A major portion of this museum catalogue is devoted to the exhibition "Poesure et Peintrie." The Sackner Archive holds the exhibition catalogue. The introduction was written by Christian Poitevin (aka Julien Blaine), Deputy Mayor with responsibility for the Arts and Culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London. Lucie-Smith states "Concrete poetry is difficult to describe but easy to recognize." Stored with other material about this exhibition. Stored with material dealing with the Archive of "Between Poetry and Painting." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a listing of items for sale. Stored in the Hausmann box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Webster states that the four main poets discussed in this book, that was originally a doctural thesis, were not influenced by Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. In the case of Marinetti, he points out the structural typographic differences and similarities between Un Coup de Des and Parole In Liberta. Webster uses the term, visual poetry, as synonymous with concrete poetry. An appendix depicts several poems descibed in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Influenced by the Holocaust, Metzger created "an art that aimed at introducing destruction as a means of transforming peoples' thoughts and feelings, not only about art, but to use art to change peoples' relation to themselves and society." Metzger is best known for organizing the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London in September 1966. The main object was to focus attention on the element of destruction in Happenings and other art forms including the Viennese Actionists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These poems are based upon a colllaboration with Kurt Schwitters on the the reading of "Pin." This never played tape is also designated No.4 of the series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reinhold Dohl contributed an essay on the history of Sound Poetry. This cover and page are the first appearance of Becher's photographs of industrial buildings in ptint and di not include his wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.