Scope and Contents 1957 Supreme Court Case: Sam Roth, NY publisher of risque literature, sentenced to five years and fined $5,000 for sending an "obscene, lewd, lascviious and filthy" publication called "American Aphrodite" through the U.S. mail. David Alberts, LA book distributor, sentenced and fined for distributing "obscene and indecent" books such as "Sword of Desire," "She Made it Pay" etc. On appeal, challenged the constitutionality (First Amendment) rights. Two cases were consolidated and came to be known as Roth v. United States and their convictions were upheld. Judge Brennan's formula for determining obscenity: 1) whether to the average person, 2) applying contemporary communiy standards, 3) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole, 4) appeals to prurient interest.1957 Ferlinghetti indited for selling Ginsberg's "Howl." Obscenity case dismissed because the material had redeeming social importance. Publishers Weekly review: The shelf is full of books about "outlaw social...

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Deals with the life and teachings of Charles Fourier who espoused the ideas of utopia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Donald Evans, an American who moved to Amsterdam in 1972, died in a fire there in 1973 at age 31. The book records his life's work and shows examples of his painted, imaginary postage stamps. The book was issued as an exhibition companion-piece for the Evans show at the Neuberger Museum SUNY, Purchase NY. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kostelanetz writes that "this book differs from most other writing about Cage in emphasizing his professional adventurousness, acknowledging not only his music but his theater, writing, radio, visual art, political philosophy, and much else, all reflecting a career based upon artistic (and thus artists') freedom...In its variety and its departures from expository conventions thirty Years is probably a more Cagean book than a measured continuous exposition." The design of this book utilizes page numbering through overlaying each page of text with a large gray number. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints in this catalogue are reprints from those Reinhardt made for a New York leftest tabloid, "P.M." and they appeared about every two weeks in the Sunday edition during 1946-1947. In addition, the folder prints were made for another periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reproduces Peter Sis' father handwritten diary. His father was lost in Tibet during a filming expedition of construction of the world's highest highway. The diary was kept in a red box. The story is told with imaginative text and graphic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Robert H. Jackson contributed an essay "William S. Burroughs: A Man with Qualities" and loaned much of the manuscripts to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Young has written a poetic biography of the artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.From Publishers Weekly: In this thick volume of 117 lean-lined poems, Young reanimates Jean-Michel Basquiat, the much-documented painter, graffiti artist and art world martyr who overdosed in 1988 at age 27. Unlike the salacious biographies, however, this epic is impressively faithful to its subject's obliquely political style and preoccupations: "Basquiat scrawls/ & scribbles, clots/ paint across/ the back/ wall of Keith Haring's/ Cable Building studio / two cops, keystoned,/ pounding a beat,/ pummel/ a black face scape/ goat, sarcophagus / uniform blue." By and large, the poems are ekphrastic, addressing particular Basquiat works and often incorporating Basquiat's painted texts into the poems (with the former often out-performing the latter), disturbing the neat division between homage and appropriation: "Andy's already bit/ the dust/ & Basquiat's just/ about to DEBT (SIC)/PISS PASSPORT/ FREE KIT...

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Baroni contributes three articles titled "To Be Memorized and Destroyed," "Not Words But Facts," and "Independent Music Meeting." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An appendix lists the table of contents for each issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a multifaceted artist whose fertile mind and wide range of original ideas were a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation in Paris, as well as to innovative artists and performers such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring, and Laurie Anderson in the next generation. Painter, writer, sound poet, tape composer, lyricist, and performance artist, Gysin is remembered particularly for his evocative paintings of the North African desert in the 1950s and his original calligraphic abstractions based on Japanese and Arabic scripts. The chance discovery by Gysin of the cut-up technique (later developed and refined by William S. Burroughs) and the concept of permutated poems gave rise to new and original forms of sound art wordplay, striking not only in print but also in recordings or live performance. Gysin's inventive ideas also extended to the Dreamachine and to collages of text and photographs. This is the first comprehensive publication on...

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Includes five reproductions of Kiesler's typewriter art works that she called 'Typo-PLastics' composed of letters and punctuation marks. Internet: Stephanie (Stefani, Stefi, Steffi ) Frischer was born in Austria in 1897. As a philology student. she married theater and art-exhibition designer, Frederick John Kiesler, in Vienna in 1920. In 1926, they emigrated to New York where Frederick obtained an architects license in 1930. Frederick Kiesler went on to become quite famous for his avant-garde designs. Steffi, meanwhile, became a librarian (in 1927) in the French and German section of the New York Public Library, a position she held for 32 years. Steffi Kiesler died in 1963. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book documents and illustrates Goeritz's career beginning in Germany and continuing mainly in Mexico. A chapter consisting of six pages depicts his concrete poems from 1959 - 1968. This definitive biography of Goeritz was written by Lily Kassner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni also provides a diagramatic drawing of collage images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The publication, designated Folio X, was produced for an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from February 4 to March 3, l986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In the Diary series, Sterne is quoted, "Maybe I am saying something which is a truism, but I feel that my work all along was like a dairy." The artist "effortlessly weaves paraphases of quotes by poets, novelists, philosphers, and theologians throughout her conversations, enjoying their ability to communicate a polyphony of diverse yet interrelated ideas. She has noted, 'all in all my greatest mentors were always books.' Although establishing direct corollaries between her paintings and books that have influenced her remins impossible, Sterne's Diary series reveals the central role they play in her thought process as well as her work. For several months in 1976, Sterne placed blank, unstretched canvases on the floor of her main living space (which then, as now, functions as kitchen, dining room, and living room), and then drew a grid patterrn on each. Daily, she filled one square grid with either a quote of her own thought and the date. The handwriting in each square alternates...