Includes many reproductions of Hansjorg Mayer's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Subtitled "American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939." Includes a detailed description of Bob Brown and his book, "Readies" in the chapter, The Roving Eye. The Sackner Archive holds Readies - a gift of Eric Estorick. This edition is a reprinting of the book that was first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ferdinand Kriwet contributed an introductory essay, "Decomposition of the Literary Unit: Notes on Visually Perceptible Literature" that traced the historical antecedents of concrete and poetry. This is followed by an illustrated section on his own linguistic and compositional techniques involving circular concrete poems, "Rundsheiben." "Walk Talk," a vinyl, floor covering, a portion of which was given to the Sackners by Kriwet is depicted in the book.Kriwet defines his term "Sehtext" as a solution to the problem of visually perceptible literature. It is the tension between the physical act of seeing and the intellectual one of reading. Seeing is a process of perception; reading is the reaction to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There are a large number of concrete poems in the final section of this book. The painting on the card has black text on a black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition from the collection of William Helfand at the Grolier Club. It traces the history of the "frequently excessive & flamboyant seller" or quackery and the marketing of proprietory medicines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text by the author analyzes electronic music as it has emerged from vocal music and instrumental music. the book is illustsrated with historical and early scientific musical machines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The quilt made by Tom Phillips and Alice Wood is contained in the Sackner Archive. It is based on the poem by William Butler Yeats "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The title of the quilt comes form the closing line "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contains photo-essay on Jan Baker's house and work, and a calligraphic tribute to her godson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Article on Phillips' globes entitled "Heaven and Earth" mentions globe in Sackner Archive. Phillips also reviews Wendy Beckett's book, "Contemporary Women Artists." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue is mainly devoted to Andrea Mantegna and his exhibition at the Royal Academy. Tom Phillips contributed an essay titled "The Glory That Was Rome." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue was presented by the gallery for the XXVI Bienal de San Paulo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Perloff demonstrates that contempory experimental poetry is highly influenced by the media of television, sound bytes and billboards. Taking an historical approach, she notes that the speech base is no longer the common speech of Yeats and Eliot but the personal utterance of the poet. She cites Charles Olsen in his manifesto "Projective Verse" (1950) who stated that "breath allows all the speech-force of language back in (speech is the solid of verse, is the secret of a poem's energy) p.34. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The profusely illustrated book consists of biographical essays and examples of work by the graphic designers selected by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The works reproduced in the catalogue were made from 1984 to 1989. Sackner Archive holds two bookworks in which selected pages are reproduced, "Winterreise" and Weiner nicht." The enclosed color etching is an abstract work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.