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Auction catalogue. In addition to books, this auction included several reviews, personal letters and bookbindings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Young includes a section on sound and concrete poetry entitled, " Post-Dada, Pop-Poetry, and the Literary Undergound." He highlights works by Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Adrian Henri, Jeff Nuttall, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Christopher Middleton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pictured in the catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive are Apollinaire's "Calligrammes," Marinetti's "Les Mots en Liberte Futurist," "Der Dada No.3," "291," Picabia's "Le Cannibale," "Dada No.4-5," "Der Blutige Ernst," "Der Dada No.2," Huelsenbeck's "En Avant Dada," VanDoesburg's "Kleine Dada Soiree," Mayakovski/Lissitzky's "For the Voice," " Le Coeur a Barbe." Stephen Foster contributed an essay, "Dada: Back to the Drawing Board and Richard Sheppard a comprehensive Dada chronology. The exhibition was curated by Joann Moser. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. This material was offered from the collection of Tristan Tzara. It included a large number of Dada and Surrealist publications along with illustrations of their covers and extensive documentration. The catalogue is a good reference source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was printed for a group exhibition organized by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is a second and augmented edition of the book first published in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Almost all of the poems in this anthology were composed with a typewriterand only seven visual poems were reproduced. The original of Franz Mon's 'Sehgange' (1964) reproduced on page 221 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a copy of Seaman's Ph.D dissertation thesis that was later revised and published in the Series "Studies in fine arts. The avant-garde" by UMI Research Press in 1981, a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. On pages 150-156, Seaman analyzes Rimbaud's "Voyelles." Seaman devotes Chapter V, pages 179-251, to Mallarme with particular attention to Un Coup de Des. Seaman provides an English translation of Tzara's recipe for making a dadaist poem in Breton's manifestos of Surrealism. Here Is Tzara's recipe:To make a dadaist poemTake a newspaper.Take a pair of scissors.Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.Cut out the article.Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.Shake it gently.Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.Copy conscientiously.The poem will be like you.And here you are a writer, Infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though...

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First published by the British Library in 2005. The English translations and/or annotations are printed at the bottom of the page that depicts these poems. This book reproduces pages of Kruchenykh & Khlebnikov's "A Game in Hell" (1914) on pages 40-41, and, Ilia Zdanevich's "Le-Dentyu as a Beacon" (1923) on pages 50-69. Pages from Lacerba, the futurist periodical, are reproduced on pages 118-131. Pages from L'Italia Futurista that ran from 1916-1918 are reproduced on pages 133-155. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of an introduction into the history of concrete Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book edited by Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Svacha serves as the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wolfsonian-FIU in 2000. The critical essays include the following chapters: "Karel Teige in the Twenties: The Moment of Sweet Ejaculation," "Poetism," "Typography," "Before and After the Mundaneum: Teige as Theoretician of the Architectural Avant-Garde," "Karel Teige during the Thirties: Projecting Dialectics," and "Karel Teige's Collages, 1935-1951: The Erotic Object, the Social Object, and Surrealistic Landscape Art." The appendix includes a chronological overview of Teige's life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Text was written by Albert-Birot and engravings were done by Staritsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is subtitled "La Figuration dans l'alphabet latin du huitieme siecle a nos jours." Raymond Queneau contributed a preface. This is a new and augmented edition with the dust jacket cover by Andre Francois. The anthology, with text by Massin, is divided into three main sections. The first section is a discussion of the letter itself, the letter as symbol and the history of letters. The next section contains figurative verse and calligrams, shaped poetry and prose throughout history. The final section of the book examines the use of letters in fine art and how the letter form has grown in importance throughout the history of art. The diverse illustrations are international in scope and range from early Christian prayer books and Gothic alphabets to contemporary works.On the title page, the caption that this is a new and expanded edition appears; the first edition was published in 1970. The dust jackets differ between the two second editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or...