Review of "Broken Language: Visual Books" an exhibition which took place at San Francisco Camerawork. Author mentions that Barbara Drucker's "The Golden Age," held by Sackner Archive, is in the tradition of Tom Phillips "A Humument". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue was designed by Claire Satin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The plastic objects are a knife, fork and spoon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The plastic objects are a knife, fork and spoon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lehrer indicates that Versations is made up of sounds in a space that can have personal meaning to the reader, or can be used as a score or script for a performance of characters listed at the top of each page. "Time moves from top to bottom. The performance progresses one page at a time. Notations that occur on the same horizontal line are performed simultaneously. Line lengths are determined by breath breaks as in verse but the reading as in conversation is generally fluid. Most speeches have typographic indicators for particular emphasis, volume, or emotion. Some chacters on the othe hand ar more monochromatic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lehrer indicates that Versations is made up of sounds in a space that can have personal meaning to the reader, or can be used as a score or script for a performance of characters listed at the top of each page. "Time moves from top to bottom. The performance progresses one page at a time. Notations that occur on the same horizontal line are performed simultaneously. Line lengths are determined by breath breaks as in verse but the reading as in conversation is generally fluid. Most speeches have typographic indicators for particular emphasis, volume, or emotion. Some chacters on the othe hand are more monochromatic. The letter from Lehrer reads, "here is another copy of versations for your collection. i hope that the other books arrived safely. thanks again and enjoy................." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was written as a homage to Hirschman's friend, Sara Menefee, who will be on trial for feeding hungry people without a permit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page is typed with lines of lower case letters a to z and then z to a. Each successive page is over-typed with increasing density such that the additional letters create a moire effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bookworks: Very Food is an anthology of recipes, in part reading as an autobiographical stream of consciousness, interwoven with references to food and cooking, and introducing the reader to a witty, arch world of puns and metaphors. The recipes are entered as diaristic memory ¿bites¿ which trigger off anecdotal stories and give glimpses into Ziranek¿s life as an artist and a cook. At the back of the book a glossary contains instructions for the recipes, which can be cooked as well as read. The recipes are punctuated with images: knick-knacks, objects and fabrics from the 1950¿s, collected and photographed by Ziranek as constructed still lives. Ziranek¿s challenging take on the genre of writing about eating goes beyond parody into the universe of the ¿meta-recipe¿ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by John Deumans. Anne Moeglin-Delcroix contributed an essay on contemporary artist-collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Miglietta has composed the text with printed and written letterforms; the size of the letterforms is been rendered conventionally and in a micrographic style. In addition, he utilized abstract symbols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book presents an explanation of a device which can produce video poems. Examples are also provided in a complex layout construction. F.M. Ruprechter aka Fritz Ruprechter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.