Scope and Contents This is one of the most outstanding, comprehensive, well illustrated, and documented exhibition catalogues in this genre. In addition to the description of the exhibition approched by movement or country, there are several interviews of the pioneers in the field. Excerpts are translated into French of manifestos and critical texts at pivotal historical points. Brief biographies of the poets/artists in the exhibition are provided. The Sackner lent several works to this exhibition. The Table of Contents includes the following: A. Coron : Avant Apollinaire, vingt siecles de poemes figures.- G. Lista : Entre dynamis et physis ou les mots en liberte du futurisme.- M. Decaudin : De l'espace figure a l'espace signifiant.- J.-P. Bobillot : Du visuel au litteral, quelques propositions.- M. Dachy : Dada, la langue comme utopie.- M. D. : L'Ursonate de Kurt Schwitters.- V. Markov : Les futuristes russes.- A. Schwarz : Les dix facettes d'une poetique libertaire.- M. Davidson : Le texte...

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This book is a compilation of performance scripts with heavy emphasis on Fluxus and Neo-Dada. As indicated in the book, Spaulding Gray, the now well known radio monologist, performed in a music piece written by Paul Epstein in 1971. Kostelanetz also reprints a monologue by Gray entitled "The Return from India." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners' exhibition catalogue, The Beauty in Breathing, was displayed in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Todorovic wrote to the Sackners in response to their questions about this book as follows. In the beginning of Almanac for pages 3 to 15, we had originally planned to put a text that was removed from the final version, however the page numbers were left unchanged [the pages begin on 15]. Names of the authors in English, pp 45-47and 52 Dobrivoje Jevtic, 67 Miroljub Filipovic Filimir, 72 Zvonko Saric, 85 Franko Busic and Robert G. Tilly, 94 Jim Leftwich and Tamara Zikic, 103 Genrih Sapgir and Klaus Peter Dencker, 115 Shozo Shimamoto-Miroljub Todorovic, 119 Dejan Bogojevic and Vojislaav Begovic, 120 Vili R. Melnikov and Dragan Nesic, 132 Zdravko Krstanovic, 133 Tom Taylor and Margareta Jelic, 137 Carla Bertola and Ruzica Bajic, 148 Rorica Kamperelic and Dobrica Kamperelic, 159 Keiichi Nakamura and Miroslav Klivar, 178 Milivoj Andjelkovic, 179 Ilija Bakic and Klaus Groh, 207 Michele Perfetti and Pierre Garnier, 213 and Ruggero Maggi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.