Scope and Contents Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese literature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relationship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the influences of Japanese writers on world literature. He also provides a critical analysis of Kitasono's poetic working methods with several translations of poems written in Japanese to English. He mentions that in the late 1920s, Katue published "Collection of White Poems" that was translated by Solt. This is a constellation long before Gomringer declared this form, concrete poetry, e.g. white residence - white table - pink noblelady - white distant view - blue sky, etc. Solt records the following. "Other Western poets took notice of the VOU translations. High praise came from Hugh Gordon Porteus, who wrote in Criterion in 1939, "The most fruitful experiments with language are likely to continue to emerge from those who concern themselves with images and their relations, rather than with idle wordspinning. Nothing...

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This is an unpublished essay dealing with Copithorne's personal involvement in visual poetry -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The section on Tom Phillips begins by stating that his work "defies all restrictive notions of style and all bids to establish fixed aesthtic categories...The musical output of Tom Phillips is much more than a side aspect of his activity as a painter in that is lends an original dimension, along experimental lines, to the relation between musician and score...Whenever TP makes artistic use of a notation of a musical instrument, he insinuates an interpretation of both temporal and spacial characte -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents At the time of this exhibition in 1981, no one was paying attention to the ways in which visual artists were using sound, yet everyone was vaguely aware of it. Suzanne Delehanty and the Neuberger mounted this show, pulling together books, objects, installations, and performance to at least sketch the scope of the idea. There were performances by the Glass Orchestra, and Composers Inside Electronics among others; books and objects by Braque, Duchamp, Dick Higgins, Kandinsky, Alison Knowles, George Macunias, Man Ray, Rauschenberg, Schwitters, and Tinguely and more; instruments/sculptures by Agam, Bertoia, Calder, Paik, and more; installations by Acconci, Anderson, Cage, Monk, Robert Morris, Nauman, and more; and many, many records and tapes by artists including the foregoing, Ono, Dine, Dibbets, LeWitt, and too many to mention (e-mail for specific inquiries). This was in fact a blockbuster, and the catalogue alone serves as one of the best scholarly resources there is on the subject,...

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This book details the art gardens, steps and fountains titled "Spine" at the Maguire Gardens Central Library in Los Angeles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Maurice Tuchman and Stephanie Barron. This catalogue contains seventeen essays that provide a radical rethinking of abstraction with special attention to the pioneers of nonrepresentational art. The exhibition focuses on what the artist intended his painting to mean rather than how it looked. " By offering clues to the now-hidden meanings of abstract art, it helps make the esoteric accessible and the obscure visible, illuminating not only the art but also the spiritual beliefs that nourished it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The panels and base of this sculpture are collages with photocopied prints. The work was included in the I.C.A. exhibition of Guillaume Apollinaire, 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The panels and base of this sculpture are collages with photocopied prints. The work was included in the I.C.A. exhibition of Guillaume Apollinaire, 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The typewritten pages are pasted to a large black sheet of papercard. The work was included in the I.C.A. exhibition of Guillaume Apollinaire, 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an exceptionally well researched and presented book on the Surrealists with emphasis on their personal relationships and their political flirtation with Communism. The first part of the book emphasizes the poetic beginnnings of Surrealism, the second part the visual counterparts as exemplified by the paintings by Salvador Dali and the films by Luis Bunuel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an essay in a medical magazine that describes the beginnings of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology traces the historic roots of concrete and visual poetics through numerous illustrations to contemporary times. Franz Mon's "Collage" of 1965 (Decollage) depicted on page 81 is held by the Sackner Archive. The originals of Ruutsalo's "Textfilm" reproduced on page 96 are also held by the Sackner Archive. The book includes a section that shows employment of concrete and visual poems in commercial advertisements. The cover depicts a reproduction of a collage by Jochen Gerz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology traces the historic roots of concrete and visual poetics through numerous illustrations to contemporary times. Franz Mon's "Collage" of 1965 (Decollage) depicted on page 81 is held by the Sackner Archive. The originals of Ruutsalo's "Textfilm" reproduced on page 96 are also held by the Sackner Archive. The book includes a section that shows employment of concrete and visual poems in commercial advertisements. The cover depicts a reproduction of a collage by Jochen Gerz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Although the title suggests a broad based survey, the focus of this book is primarily Spanish and Catalonian Futurist and the Ultra Movement poetry. These early 20th century poems are in the style of concrete rather than visual poetry. Bohn also provides English translations and interpretations of several of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book explores the ways in which books represent art and literature, and how the marriage of word and image can create a work of art in its own right. Chapters include the following: Illumination, Bindings, Documentary Manuscripts, Children's Books, Comics, Poetry and Experimental Typography, Book Art and Contemporary Art and Publishing. It also includes a history of the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Several examples of the books depicted in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, several of the contemporary artist/poets works are represented in the Archive.Some definitions are of the book/poetry forms are not in the mainstream of classification. For example, Bob Cobbing's abstract sound poetry scores are classified as visual poetry in contrast to the more usual classification of visual poetry along the lines of poesia visiva.Under the citation of the John-Eric Broaddus book, Marvin Sackner's comments about his working methods are...

Scope and Contents After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and surrealism, Mayakovsky, Russian Futurism and Brecht, to the post-modernist writers Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, and Pynchon. This book also includes a section of political poetry such as "The Future of Socialism" by Helmut Heissenbuttel below.nobody exploitsnobody oppressesnobody is exploitednobody is oppressednobody wins anythingnobody loses anythingnobody is masternobody is slavenobody is superiornobody is subordinatenobody owes anything to younobody does anything to younobody owns nothingnobody exploits nobodynobody oppresses nobodynobody is exploited by nobodynobody is oppressed by nobodynobody wins nothingnobody loses nothingnobody is master of nobodynobody is slave of nobodynobody is superior to nobodynobody is subordinate to nobodynobody owes anything to nobodynobody does anything to...