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A great deal of this PhD thesis is spent in arguments with David Seaman's views on concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Fox critically analyzes the poetic works of d.a. levy and his circle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Nancy Campell, editor of Printmaking Today, profiles A Humument as it approaches its half century. Phillips describes how he is developing two digital versions of the artist book. In her personal letter to the Sackners, Campell writes,"I thought you would like a copy for the archive. I am thrilled to have Tom's witty 'mise en scene' of the magazine format on the cover. I also wish to acknowledge my gratitude, since I found Marvin Sackner's essay 'Humuantism' a useful resource." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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David Jones has been described as the greatest poet-painter since Blake and his work is rich in scope and complexity. Tom Phillips was influenced by him, particularly his use of carved letterforms. Jonathan Miles and Derek Shiel provided the text of definitive biography. The drawings of elongated religious figures made by Jones in the twenties may have influenced Houedard's religious drawings in the fifties. A chapter in the book details Jones' inscriptions and their relation to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Unica Zurn's writings are largely auto-biographical and reflect her long journey into mental illness. She was the long-time companion of Hans Bellmer. She produced poetry, novels, anagrams and automatic drawings and travelled in the artistic circles of the Surrealists. "The years from 1957 to 1967 are documented in the main text of the Man of Jasmine...The cycle of her crises, the contrasts between the miracles, her feelings of megalomania and the crushing banality and tedium of life in mental hospitals, is captured vividly...Zurn's acumen and artistry, her virtuosity as a writer were able to withstand her mental crises and depressions and allowed her to add a further masterpiece to a small precious row of unclassifiable works." Zurn committed suicide in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Paula Scher has painted large maps with dense and colorful geographic names of the locations. The maps include Africa, Europe, Florida, Los Angeles and Long Island. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This profusely illustrated book dealing with the power of the media, written over 32 years ago at the time of writing this annotation still is current in thought today. Thus, McLuhan writes on page 67, "The new interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This profusely illustrated book dealing with the power of the media, written over 32 years ago at the time of writing this annotation still is current in thought today. Thus, McLuhan writes on page 67, "The new interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Barbara A. MacAdam contributes an essay "The Micro Wave" that describes the work of artists inspired by textiles, computer chips, prayers and obsessions, creating works that are almost impossible to decipher. These works of micrography were done by Jacob El Hanani, Shirazeh Houshiary, Stefana McClure, Gary Gissler, and Simon Frost. Elisa Turner reviews "Dreams and Disillusion," the exhibition of Czech graphic designer Karel Teige at the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Moss Haggadah was commissioned by Beatrice and Richard Levy. The Sackner Archive also holds the deluxe, limited edition of the Moss Haggadah. This hard cover edition is also known as the deluxe copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two essays, "Finster's Fantasies" and "A Preacher-Painter Leads Students to Their Own Artistic Roots" describe the interaction of the unschooled, spiritual artist with students at Lehigh. Four of Finster's pictures are illustrated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Phillips presented this paper to the Architecture forum in the Reynolds Room of the Royal Academy of Arts on October 28, 2002. This reading version is formated into nine parts and 157 statements describing ornament which Phillips states "...is high art hidden everywhere. Ornament is the stylistic signature of time and place and peoples." Statement 109: The use of calligraphy in ornament is as old as writing itself and the graffiti artists of the late 20th century in New York brought calligraphic expression to a new height comparable with the best of Islamic letter-based art or mediaeval illumination." 110: Ornament, however, including the calligraphic type, has its own mode of communication. In that it has meaning it bypasses the customary modes of literal or metaphorical and inhabits Dante's final category of signification, the anagological, wher form embodies truth directly, making as it were a spiritual equation." Stored in box with Phillips notebooks, -- Source of annotation:...

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The 762 color photographs taken by Tom Grill depict 250 miniature books in designer bindings. Each book is illustrated in its actual size and is represented by several photos. The bindings are a catalogue of Neale Albert's collection that was exhibited at The Grolier Club. There is a preface by Albert and an essay by Priscilla Juvelis. This book was designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of 29 essays of writings by the Avant Garde in America. Kostelanetz mentions "Seatbelt, Seatbelt" by Amirkhanian and notes that it never has been commercially recorded. He includes essays on the work of Michael Joseph Phillips and Harry Polkinhorn. Kostelanetz raves about the esthetics of Peter Rose's film, "Pressures of the Text (1983), a work held by the Sackner Archive. He writes a complementary essay on Kenneth Burke and illustrates it with a concrete poetic "flowerisches." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprint of an article on the contemporaneous state of concrete poetry in the UK. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the end of the Century," Gomez-Pena writes about the interaction and space between the Mexican and American cultures using performance art, poetry, essays and dramas as his media. He is involved with the issues of immigration, racial violence, AIDS, political freedom and human rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.