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This book is "an introduction to happenings, kinectic environments, and other mixed-media performances." Nine members of the 1960's avant garde discuss their works with Kostelanetz in the new theatre forms, including John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg and La Monte Young. Richard Kostelanetz contributes two essays interpreting the new theatre in terms of its historical, social and aesthetic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This critical text focuses on three themes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: 1) the relation of experimental typography used by the artistic avant garde to linguistic theories, 2) the divergence of experimental typography from visual images, and 3) the work of four influential practitioners of experimental typography and their debt to advertising copy, viz., Marinetti, Apollinaire, Tzara, and Zdanevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents William H. Gass and John Updike contributed critical essays. Publishers Weekly 2007 "In this hefty volume, novelist Friedman takes a look at the artwork of more than 200 authors who found other avenues for expression in drawing, painting or sculpting. Aside from the familiar illustrations of Edward Gorey, Beatrix Potter and (to a lesser extent) Kurt Vonnegut, Friedman also unearths work from literary heavyweights past and present, including the Bronte sisters, Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling, Colleen McCullough, Vladamir Nabokov, John Updike and Jonathan Lethem. Each entry offers a short biography and passages from journals, letters or interviews illuminating the author's reasons for picking up pen or paint; according to Elizabeth Bishop, for instance, writers make a "frequent complaint that painting is more fun than writing." Examples of authors' art, one or two from each subject, are handsomely reproduced in vivid color alongside the text. Friedman also covers a long list of...

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Themerson writes a fictionalized version regarding the alleged father of Apollinaire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Nora Quinlan and William Brown. The Sackner Archive lent four works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introduction was written by Rigby Graham. This book is stored with Jos C. Brilliantes book, "Sonnets in Concrete volume one." Bridgewater in other publications also spelled his name as Bridgwater. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This outstanding book traces the history of typographic design through major art movements to a description of new technologies for print design using computers. The chapters include: The Many Faces of Typographic Design; Order out of Chaos-the Russian Avant Garde; The New Typography Crosses the Ocean; The Influence of the Private Presses; Typefaces; Bits, Bytes and Typographic Design. Typefaces are alphabetically listed and their features described as an excellent reference source.This copy is the first edition whereas the duplicate is a first edition, second printing in 1991.Editorial review: Suddenly, the universe of people making typographical decisions has expanded. Effective visual communication through the informed manipulation of the size and style of type, its placement on a two dimensional surface, its integration with graphic material, and the quality of its reproduction is within reach of anyone who has a computer. Typographic Communications Todayplaces this phenomenon...

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Auction catalog of twentieth century illustrated books, original editions, autographed manuscripts, and bookbindings. Documentation of books particularly well done. Several books, generally with special bindings or different editions of authors cited are held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes a bibliography of 2099 sources which at the end of the list, Kessler concludes with "to be continued." However, the latter never happened!This book is also designated Band 30 od Deutsche Studien -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Nearly complete listing of works and documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains reproduction of handcolored images of Apollinaire's calligraphic poems from the exhibition catalog of Irene Lagut/Leopold Survage, 1917, a book held by the Sackner Archive. The recording is of Apollinaire's reading of his poem "Le Pont Mirbeau," in 1914. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Jean-Paul Larouche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The chapters dealing with the world-wide concrete poetry movement include Experimental Poetry and Poetic Experiences, Technical Styles, Alphabets and Calligraphy, Silences of Movement, Constellation, Text/Surface, and Bibliography. This is the 2nd expanded edition of the original published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue has an introductory essay by Dick Higgins. This catalogue consists of French art/poetry lent by the Sackner Archive to a Bass museum exhibition on Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.