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Each leaflet has a single letter printed oon it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each leaflet has a single letter printed oon it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Laxson writes that the "Letters to the Ether Other" first existed as one-of-a-kind bas relief wall pieces... This small edition is a spin off of that work printed while the hand-set type was still in tack on various papers found around the studio." Each page is presented as a combination folded letter with a black printed envelope waiting to be mailed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The object is shaped like an envelope with a Laxson "postage stamp in the right upper corner. The printed message on the envelope reads, "Dear Sirs: I recently received your MULTI-Measuring Device. It arrived in good condition, but it does not allow for the/the image slippage factor! Do you have a new model? Sincerely yours... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bookbinder, Georges Leroux, inserted several blank pages of thick handmade paper to enhance the width of the book prior to binding. The title of the book appears on the bookbinding in inlaid copper letters on the front and back covers as thin, elongated letters. The calligraphic text is made with brown and black inks of different intensities so as to appear old rather than contemporary. Interspersed in the text are images drawn with colored inks and watercolors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The booklet was designed using drawings made by Pagiras to form the word, 'Lettre,' one letter to a page. These letters are repeated on each page along with abstract markings and/or a profile of a stylized face. After completion of the text, the page depicts a stylized frontal view of the face with different letters eminating from the area of the brain. Book displayed in glass case and envelope in small objects box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work consists of 15 sheets, 17.9 x 81.2 cm conjoined to form a single scroll backed with purple cotton fabric. It is read as a continous work from top to bottom and printed with conventional typography (14-point Times Roman). The handmade lead storage container is decorated with gold wire. Mutel states that the lead box is about memory and inside the box we can find the whole life of the unknown woman going and going like a river. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The words of the poem are painted in black ink on gray hand painted papers and resemble carved letters on ancient walls. The complete text of the poem "Lettres" is handwritten on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Includes a calligraphic drawing on the Labyrinth, Abracadabra, and Rimbaud's "Vowel's" by Furnival that extends over 3 pages. The optical typewriter poem was done by Charles Cameron in 1966. The micrographic, collaged drawing was made by Peter James. Two pages consist of Houedard works, viz., shaped typewriter poem undated, pop-up typewriter poem undated, 2 typewriter poems undated and 3 typewriter poems dated 140164, 091263, 190964; also, ink drawing 090663 and photograph. Also, includes two ink drawings (1954) and two typewriter poems (1981) by Houedard. Contains a proof copy of Stampart 1, Coracle (1977) and a colored print from Furnival's Erik Satie (1976) by Ron King. Also, includes print (lauter) and sound poem, (hosi + anna, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 1971) by Jandl, shaped ink poem by Birney, ink drawing by Hansjorg Mayer, concrete poem with colored text by Emmett Williams, a watercolor spanning 2 pages by Samuel Buri, ink drawing by Nuttall, and typing by Wheatley. It also...

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Exhibition curated by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Luciano Caruso who also wrote an introductory essay. Most of the books were book objects or had solely visual content -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These collages have the same formatted media presentation but differ in their themes most of which are abstract. However, one of the calligraphic images is modeled after a Futurist Parole In Liberta landscape poem in which large dotted "i's" serve as Roman columns while another depicts an oriental face. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A photographic reproduction of a page from this book listed as No.177 in catalogue entitled "Alfa-Omega," 1989 is listed by Elisa Debenedetti in her catalog on Cattania works from 1952-1987. Cattania's calligraphy, achieved through a personal stylistic flame incising of the cloth pages, appears as grids and in diagonal overwritings of linear text. Images include a surrealistic eye, a menorah and a meditating yogi figure among others. One page has a grid composed of repeated number "3's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.