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This extensive exhibition of poesia visiva was curated by Nicola Micieli. Critical essays were provided by Eugenio Miccini and Lamberto Pignotti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Enrico Mascelloni who wrote the introduction to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book describes an exhibition and a symposium that included sound poetry, which was held in Venice in June 1972. The critic, Rossana Apicella, mentions, "Let us hope, si licet, that visual poetry will not meet with rapid success, that it will remain immediate, violent, mad and popular, erudite and authentically experimental; there is a risk, otherwise, that according to the logic of human destiny it will get up to a dangerous pedestal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Nicola Micieli; Eugenio Miccini and Lamberto Pignotti contributed essays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition, which was curated by Julio Plaza, featured an extensively illustrated exhibition catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The plexiglas sculpture is from the Pyramidal Ecstasy Exerzises (sic) of Arias-Misson. In a letter to the Sackners, he stated that "they are without doubt the most concentrated and beautiful work I have done... a joyous affair built on the proportions of the Cheops; first I became fascinated by the compelling geometrical forces of the Pyramid, as angles and slopes and proportions created a grammar of relations between the figures I was working with.The theory of numbers, the enormous equation at the heart of the Pyramid, is not irrelevant to this mental energy. The Pyramid, unlike the Western spiritual structures, which soar upward from the ground, appears to have crashed from a void at its summit (the uncompleted golden pyramidal point) to the ground with a geomagnetic intensity. The figures on the walls and inside the pyramids come from the various shamanistic cultures of the world (Polynesian, African, Mayan, Vaudou etc.) which I feel can cluster in this all-encompassing...

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Exhibition was curated by Gillo Dorfles and Alain Arias-Misson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Gillo Dorfles and Alain Arias-Misson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Arias-Misson provides an essay that defines the "public poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introductory essay was written by Rossana Apicella. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with 17 installations of Arias-Misson's Public Poems. Arias-Misson defined them as 'Street Libido'to underscore the subversive and liberation action of performing them. This is becasue the appropiation of public city space is a provocative event, e.g., collisions with traffic or the forces of order commonly occur. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent several original pages A Humument (from 1st revised edition) by Tom Phillips to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.